Tag: credit ratings

Greater transparency around how ESG considerations are integrated into credit ratings, coupled with new technologies to produce market-leading research on the credit implications of ESG factors, were among key drivers behind Moody’s Investors Service winning CorporateTreasurer’s 2021 Credit Rating Agency award.

CT spoke to a Fitch analyst to better understand a new tool that helps fixed income-investors understand how credit ratings could potentially be affected by ESG risk. Governance appears to be the main concern

Once a rife practice pre-credit crisis, anecdotal evidence of bond ratings shopping is surfacing as the debt markets become buoyant again. Treasurers and investors beware.