For African countries, this opacity can be especially damaging. When rating decisions lack transparency, it’s impossible to challenge potential biases or inconsistencies in methodology that put ...

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?

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Two US credit rating agencies have become embroiled in a rare public dispute over the reliability of scores for insurance companies’ growing stash of private credit investments.

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Six credit rating agencies agreed to pay a total of more than $49 million in civil penalties to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges they broke recordkeeping rules.

(CNN) — Credit rating agencies are once again in the spotlight amid the ongoing high-stakes debt ceiling negotiations in Washington. Credit ratings agencies like Moody’s decide the US credit ...

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?