credit ratings

Sovereigns stabilising in 2022

The outlook for Asia Pacific sovereigns in 2022 is stable as growth recovers and debt flattens; rebuilding of buffers will determine the pace of credit recovery, according to Anushka Shah, vice president-senior analyst, Sovereign Risk Group, Moody’s Investors Service.

Moody's Investors Service

Chinese LGFVs: Polarising credit profiles amid an improved liquidity and policy environment

Local-government financing vehicles have been one of the fastest growing sectors for G3 bonds. Fitch Ratings’ international public finance team’s Terry Gao, Samuel Kwok and Ark Huang reveal their outlook for this sector in 2019.

Fitch Ratings

Credit ratings need Asian champion – de Villepin

Dominique de Villepin, former prime minister of France and frontman for UCRG, a pan-Asian credit ratings agency, tells FinanceAsia that the world has not learned the lessons of the 2008 financial crisis.

November 27, 2013

Growing risks to sovereign creditworthiness in Asia

Increasing levels of debt may pose serious risks to sovereign creditworthiness in some of the region’s key economies, explains KimEng Tan of Standard & Poor’s.

S&P Global Ratings

Stable outlook for Chinese property; sales to increase

Kaven Tsang and Franco Leung of Moody’s examine the outlook for China’s property sector during the next year.

Moody's Investors Service

Asia-Pacific issuers face ratings pressure in 2013

Terry Chan from Standard & Poor’s explains why the overall negative ratings bias on Asian corporates, financial institutions and insurance entities may continue into 2013.

S&P Global Ratings

Liquidity weakens further for Asian high-yield corporates

Laura Acres of Moody’s discusses covenant quality in the face of eroding corporate liquidity.

Moody's Investors Service

How would a slowing economy test China’s top corporations?

Terry Chan, head of corporate research at Standard & Poor’s, presents the results of a recent study of Chinese companies.

S&P Global Ratings

Six key challenges shaping China’s credit profile

Tom Byrne, head of Moody’s Asian sovereign risk group, discusses the economic and policy challenges that China’s next leaders will face, and how they affect China’s credit profile.

Moody's Investors Service

Rating agencies score a failing grade

Our readers give their opinion on rating agencies’ accountability in the wake of a damning verdict against Standard & Poor’s in Australia.

November 13, 2012