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No credit rating.

So ill, in fact, that Standard Poor s recently cut its sovereign credit rating the country s second downgrade in less than two years.

Poor s has put the already low A rating under review for a possible downgrade.

The United Nations goal with respect to the credit rating would be to convince the credit rating agencies to treat the borrowing as quasi sovereign for credit rating purposes.

Standard Poor s has put the already low A rating under review for a possible downgrade.

The credit rating agencies would probably evaluate the United Nations for credit rating purposes based on various criteria, including

E. Credit rating of United Nations bond

Poor s raised its credit rating to investment grade.

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But what, then, were the credit rating agencies doing?

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Incentives for brokers and credit rating agencies have been even more perverse.

This would, among other things, reduce the role of credit rating agencies.

Greece boasts by far the lowest credit rating in the euro zone.

As private rating agencies live on the fees they collect from rated companies, they cannot easily downgrade important clients or the assets they sell.

A second problem for regulators, supervisors, and, indeed, credit rating agencies was scarce resources.

True, India s government must now consider growing threats to the country s investment grade credit rating.

Any United Nations bond issue would be evaluated by market participants and potential investors by its credit rating, which is a formal evaluation of the creditworthiness of the bond issue by an independent credit rating agency.

In establishing a credit rating on a United Nations bond issue, the credit rating agencies would focus on the source and probability of timely debt service payments, in accordance with the terms applicable to the bond issue.

This reinforces the need for the development of e credit information and related e credit rating and scoring techniques in the developing and transition economies.

It's a new social currency, so to speak, that could become as powerful as our credit rating.

The debt has more recently been reduced with the State Government once again receiving a AAA Credit Rating.

In 2000 Fitch acquired both Chicago based Duff Phelps Credit Rating Co. (April) and Thomson Financial BankWatch (December).

An investment grade rating reflects the credit rating agencies' belief that the probability of payment of the bond is high and the financial risk associated with the investment is low.

The banks do all of this work so the credit rating agencies will stamp the top slice as a safe, triple A rated investment The highest safest rating there is.

The buyers of the CDOs were often misguided by rating agencies that performed badly and did not provide reliable information. As private rating agencies live on the fees they collect from rated companies, they cannot easily downgrade important clients or the assets they sell.

Germany s credit rating would not be endangered, because Eurobonds would compare favorably with bonds issued by other major countries.

Moreover, credit rating agencies had serious conflicts of interest, because they received fees from the managers of these instruments.

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They said, sure, Sal, you have an excellent credit rating, and you look like an all around great guy.

The data was lifted by a consultant working for a personal credit rating firm, Korea Credit Bureau, who accessed the user databases of three major credit card companies and sold the information to phone marketing companies.

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Credit rating agencies, which play an important role in modern capital markets, completely failed in the years preceding the financial crisis. What is needed is an effective mechanism for rating the raters.