Rate me up, before you go-go: Caveat Lector column

The rating agencies often repeat the mantra that credit ratings are an opinion of creditworthiness, not a recommendation to buy or sell. But do sovereign credit ratings even provide a useful, relevant opinion of creditworthiness?

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Japan: credit rating under scrutiny

Japan continues its slide down the slippery slope of the credit ratings world, and with it so perhaps does the credibility of the whole sovereign ratings process. Is Japan really a Aa2/AA-/AA- credit and, if so, is it really two notches weaker than Nestlé but one notch better than Unilever?

It was in the run-up to European currency union in October 1997 that BNP (it hadn’t bought Paribas from under the nose of Société Générale yet) gave a seminar for insurance companies on the prospects for a pan

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Credit risk & modelling – Special report 2021

This Risk special report provides an insight on the challenges facing banks in measuring and mitigating credit risk in the current environment, and the strategies they are deploying to adapt to a more stringent regulatory approach.

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