One of the objectives of the CRA Regulation is to increase competition in the markets for credit ratings by encouraging … issuers to use smaller credit rating agencies. To this end, Article 8d(1) of the CRA Regulation states that where issuers or … its website every year, indicating their total market share and the types of credit ratings issued. …

public database and on information publicly disclosed by credit rating agencies registered with ESMA.Additionally, ESMA … and governance of the sovereign rating process.Sovereign credit ratings play a crucial role from a credit market and … level of variation with respect to the type and number of sovereign ratings they assign.Sovereign credit ratings themselves …

of its general investigation in the way credit rating agencies (CRAs) conduct surveillance of structured finance credit … ratings, as indicated in ESMA’s Credit Rating Agencies Annual Report 2013.The investigation took place between October 2013 … and September 2014 and involved the four largest CRAs providing credit ratings on structured finance instruments in the EU …

Based on a unique data set referencing exposures on single name credit default swaps (CDS) on European reference …

European Parliament and the Council of 21 May 2013, amending Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 on credit rating agencies (CRA …