Credit/Sovereign Risk
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The companies in the "Credit and Sovereign Risk" category produce country risk reports focused on economics, and specifically on sovereign default risk and/or payment default risk for exporters (a.k.a. "trade credit" risk).
Dun & Bradstreet Country Risk Services
Venerable credit rating provider Dun & Bradstreet goes macro and global with its offering of "comprehensive" country reports on cross-border risks. Comprehensive they surely aren't, but the reports do provide excellent economic analysis and specific advice on funds repatriation risks,...
Fitch
Fitch is the third member of the mighty sovereign ratings triumvirate (with Moody's and S&P). The Company offers sovereign ratings and analysis for the roughly eighty countries that issue sovereign debt. Keep in mind the ratings are free (see our...
Institutional Investor and Euromoney Country Risk Ratings
The long-running country risk ratings published by these two magazines -- owned by the same company -- are used by many banks, mutual funds, and the like, as authoritative measures of country risk. Both ratings use essentially the same approach:...
Moody's
Moody's (like S&P and Fitch) produces ratings that address the risk of sovereign bond default. Thus there are different ratings for the various categories of sovereign debt -- short term, long-term, local currency, foreign currency. As always, the ratings themselves...
S.J. Rundt's
S.J. Rundt and Associates has been around longer and has more street cred than their entry-level website would suggest. Their chief economist is a fixture at trade credit industry conferences, and the country reports chiefly target a corporate credit management...
Standard & Poor's RatingsDirect
S&P (together with Moody's & Fitch) holds an unusual position in country analysis: what it says actually matters. S&P sets sovereign risk ratings (AAA, AA, AA+, BB-, etc.) for the eighty-odd countries that issue sovereign bonds. Multinational banks and companies...
