Explore financial ratings: what they are, how they're assigned, their role in evaluating investment risks and opportunities, and the impact of major agencies.

Credit quality assesses financial solvency using credit scores for people and credit ratings for entities. Learn its impact ...

How and on what basis the continent’s governments can secure financing should not be based on external discretion ...

Private credit ratings have surged in recent years, growing from a relatively niche asset class into a cornerstone of portfolios. While ...

Two ratings agencies have downgraded the city of Chicago and kept their negative outlooks intact, citing the city’s ...

Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., is set to try to reform credit rating agencies. May 4, 2010— -- Sen. Al Franken has written an amendment to financial overhaul legislation that would seek to prevent ...

Fitch Ratings, the credit rating agency, says that solvency capital ratios for insurers in the European Union with meaningful ...

Another of the major credit rating agencies is taking notice of the Nova Scotia government’s finances.

CHARLESTON — Gov. Patrick Morrisey praised an upgrade in West Virginia’s ratings outlook, but that same report included a warning about the state’s continuing loss of population, reliance on fossil ...

AM Best is a global credit rating agency, news publisher and data analytics provider specializing in the insurance industry. Headquartered in the United States, the company does business in over 100 ...