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Africa’s new credit rating agency could change the rules of the game. Here’s how
02 Jun 2025 10:08 GMT
… Success for the African Credit Rating Agency shouldn’t be … realities.
The African Credit Rating Agency could make three … sustainability-related expertise into credit rating committees. I believe this … challenge. And the natural oligopoly (a market dominated by …
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CT electricity: market or oligopoly?
06 Mar 2025 17:19 GMT
… who don’t know, an oligopoly is a situation in which … and requires an investment grade credit rating from Standard & Poor’s …
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A fairer credit rating system for African countries could save billions
10 Jul 2024 12:28 GMT
… : Well, you see, the credit rating market is quite oligopolistic. So, I think … , yes, there are some local credit rating agencies … talk about credit rating, they also refer to the global credit rating agencies, including …
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New African credit rating agency to publish 1st rating of SA government Friday
20 Sep 2022 05:56 GMT
… will publish its first credit rating of the South African … Africa Ratings (Pty) Ltd credit rating agency licence.
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“The first African credit rating agency focusing on emerging … new entrant into an oligopolistic international industry. It is …
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Jayati Ghosh | Credit rating agency resistance
17 Mar 2021 20:21 GMT
… credit ratings. And there is significant cross-shareholding among them.
These oligopolistic … supporting the temporary suspension of credit ratings. In the medium term, … global agency makes sense, because credit ratings, especially for sovereign debt, …
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Credit-rating agencies are back under the spotlight
07 May 2020 16:28 GMT
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IN TIMES OF financial plenty credit ratings go largely unnoticed. In downturns … , no surprise that the ratings oligopoly faces another potential backlash, now …
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Lawmakers Move to Protect Federal Employees' Credit Ratings During Shutdowns
20 Sep 2019 18:56 GMT
A House panel on Friday advanced legislation that would block credit agencies from downgrading the ratings of federal employees, contractors and other consumers seriously impacted by a government shutdown.
The Protecting Innocent Consumers Affected by a …
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Financing for Whom? Trials & Tribulations from the Fourth Financing for Development in Seville
15 Jul 2025 14:52 GMT
… addressing the inordinate power of Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) in determining the … for dialogue among Member States, credit rating agencies, regulators, standard setters, long … for multilateral oversight on the oligopoly of three central CRAs, that …
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Publisher's Note: Canada needs to play to win
10 Jul 2025 17:56 GMT
… branch-plant status and domestic oligopolies, or do we become masters … or too poor – our AAA credit rating and $14 trillion in institutional …
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At the Rio Summit, signs of BRICS in retreat – just when we need serious anti-imperial muscle
05 Jul 2025 01:25 GMT
… Rating agencies
Rating agencies, or credit-rating agencies, evaluate creditworthiness. This includes … currency injections (and no BRICS credit-ratings agency yet, notwithstanding annual … alternative to the New York oligopoly).
Blame Brazil – both state- …