Credit Rating Agency vs. Credit Bureau: An Overview It is easy to confuse credit bureaus and credit rating agencies, ...

And it was the rating agencies that decided which bonds were investment grade and which ones weren't: Issuers thus were forced to seek credit ratings (or else their bonds would not be marketable).

Three years after Congress told federal regulators to consider changing the way credit-rating agencies are paid, the industry appears poised to dodge a major overhaul. The ratings firms have been ...

RON GRASSI will admit that when he decided to sue the three major rating agencies in early 2009, he was too enraged to think about his odds. A retired family law specialist who lives in California ...

Rating agency Fitch recently warned that the rapid spread of the mpox virus in sub-Saharan Africa could add to the fiscal pressures many countries in the region are already experiencing.

One basic financial regulatory reform the Obama Administration should enhance: end the federally sanctioned cartel for credit-rating agencies.

Three credit rating agencies have a long history in the U.S. Learn about what they do and how they developed.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two US credit rating agencies have become embroiled in a rare public dispute over the reliability of scores ...

Credit rating agencies are once again in the spotlight amid the ongoing high-stakes debt ceiling negotiations in Washington. What are they, and how do they decide the US sovereign debt rating?

Simply sign up to the Business education myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As reliance increases on the rating agencies that evaluate companies’ performance on environmental ...

Bond ratings indicate a bond's credit quality, helping investors assess default risk. The three major bond ratings agencies are Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch Ratings. Investment-grade ...

Credit Rating Agency vs. Credit Bureau: An Overview . It is easy to confuse credit bureaus and credit rating agencies, especially since credit bureaus are sometimes called "credit reporting agencies." ...