What You Need To Know About Credit Rating Agencies
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Nowadays a country’s financial growth depends on how much its citizens invest and its annual expenditure and profit but also how they pay their monthly bills. As we all know our economy is in a recession but is showing signs of a recovery. This is especially good for credit rating agencies because they too are showing what the citizens are accomplishing by establishing credit payments and debt payments amongst other things to follow.
Giving credit is a part of the global economic infrastructure based on the willingness to pay off debt and and receive some sort of financial backing. Credit lending has always been fashionable, for it brings in good money to the potential lenders but due to the meltdown recently globally lending can be at times dangerous but previsions are in place now to prevent this from happening in the future especially when it amounts to the interest rates associated with credit repair loans, credit card interest rates and many other facets dealing with lending practices.
In many of the same ways these types of lending practices allow consumers to have a means to participate largely into the country’s financial outcome. There are many financial and economic benefits that this enormous money overall will factor into the lending discipline.
If your not aware credit bureaus such as Equifax, Experian and Transunion maintain credit records of all your spending habits generally. They will provide a footprint for how many times your credit report has been looked at for potential lending reasons and whether or not you pay your bills on time and generally how much credit your will carry as a whole. Now credit rating agencies determine the appropriate interest rates to provide according to which potential consumers and financial lenders work out for their deals as a whole. Obviously if your credit rating per your credit report shows that you are a potential lending risk then your interest rates will be some what higher.
Current credit rates are determined by your creditworthiness (for example: your ability to pay back a loan that you have recently applied for) provided by credit rating agencies function as guidelines in such cases. Now the contrast to a CRA, is that a company that issues credit scores for individual credit-worthiness is generally called a credit bureau or consumer credit reporting agency. The issuers are credit card companies, cities, non-profit organizations, or national governments issuing debt-like securities that can be traded on a secondary market.
The Basic Uses of These Credit Ratings
Credit ratings are used by corporate or individual investors, financial lending issuers, many large investment banks, broker-dealers, and various government agencies. For many investors, these credit rating agencies increase the range of investment alternatives to be considered and provide sole or independent, easy-to-use measurements for relative credit risk; this can generally increase the efficiency of the financial markets, by lowering costs for both borrowers and lenders. This will in turn increase the total supply of risk capital in the economy, leading to stronger growth which is where we as a whole want our global economy to accomplish. It also opens the capital markets to categories of borrowers who just might otherwise be shut out altogether and good examples for this are: small governments, small start up companies, hospitals, and state universities.
It is obvious that credit rates are never the same for everyone and that should be understood by all because every individual is completely different in makeup and creditworthiness. These guidelines are set on the basis of risk-based pricing. Risk-based pricing is a way of price differentiation based on the different expected costs of different borrowers, as set out in their credit rating.
There are more than hundred credit rating agencies around the world. The top List Credit Rating Agencies that assign credit ratings for corporations include the following:
* A. M. Best (U.S.)
* Baycorp Advantage (Australia)
* Dominion Bond Rating Service (Canada)
* Fitch Ratings (U.S.)
* Japan Credit Rating Agency (Japan)
* Malaysian Rating Corporation (Malaysia)
* Moody’s (U.S.)
* Standard & Poor’s (U.S.)
* CreditPointe (U.S.)
* Pacific Credit Rating (Peru)
* Global Rating Intelligence Services (Middle-East and Africa)
* Rating Agency Malaysia (Malaysia)
* Egan-Jones Rating Company (U.S.)
* Capital Intelligence Ltd (Cyprus)
* CRISIL (India)
* ICRA (India)
* Brickwork Ratings India Private Ltd.,(BWR) (India)
* Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh Ltd (CRAB) (Bangladesh)
* The Pakistan Credit Rating Agency Limited (PACRA) (Pakistan)
Credit rating agencies are not spared from criticism either, for their inability to downgrade countries readily enough and also supporting unscrupulous company management and you may remember in recent memory Enron and its scandal. Credit Rating Agencies play are large part in many ways how we constantly do business and to how creditworthiness and credit risk are set as guidelines.
Other Related Credit Rating Agency Topics:
Treasury Proposes Credit Rating Agency Reforms
Continuing its push to establish new rules of the road and make the financial system more fair across the board, the Administration today delivered proposed legislation to Capitol Hill to increase transparency, tighten oversight, and reduce reliance on credit rating agencies.
SEC Considering New Rules and Examiners for Credit Rating Agencies
SEC Chairwoman Mary Shapiro recently told the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee that the Commission is hard at work revising its oversight role with respect to credit rating agencies. Specifically, the Commission is considering implementing new rules for the industry and has established a branch of examiners to oversee the conduct of credit rating agencies.
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