Credit Rating Agencies play a key role in European capital markets today, publishing ratings on the creditworthiness of issuers/issues of debt securities. Independent, objective and internationally consistent credit ratings raise the integrity, transparency and competitiveness of capital...

The objective of the paper is to discuss current trends in corporate governance. The present investigation will cover issues like: a modern and updated company law-making, mainly focused on the secondary regulation by governments; the so called standard setting by market participants, as well as...