#Credit Rating
# credit-rating - Saturday 26 August, 2017
How iPads sparked a week from hell for the company behind Ireland's biggest moneylender
Provident Financial is being investigated by the UK’s financial watchdog.
# credit-rating - Monday 5 January, 2015
# credit-rating - Friday 5 December, 2014
Thanks, lads: Standard and Poor's has upgraded Ireland to an A
We’re still five notches below the highest ranking though.
# credit-rating - Thursday 21 August, 2014
Opinion: How will Ireland's rise, fall and humble recovery affect us as a nation?
Ireland is back on track – according to the ratings agencies anyway – but we aren’t the same people we were ten years ago. And we never will be again.
# credit-rating - Friday 6 June, 2014
# credit-rating - Friday 21 March, 2014
# credit-rating - Friday 17 January, 2014
# credit-rating - Sunday 17 November, 2013
NTMA: 'Moody's rating of Ireland is side-lining Asian investors'
The head of the NTMA John Corrigan said Ireland will need to engage with the markets in 2014 to pre-fund for the following year.
# credit-rating - Saturday 23 February, 2013
# credit-rating - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
S&P faces US govt suit over mortgage bond ratings
The credit risk agency promised a vigorous defense, saying the looming lawsuit would be “entirely without factual or legal merit.”
# credit-rating - Wednesday 16 January, 2013
European Parliament introduces tougher credit rating rules
Parliament voted in favour of the legislation today in a bid to improve the stability of financial markets.
# credit-rating - Wednesday 14 November, 2012
# credit-rating - Monday 8 October, 2012
# credit-rating - Tuesday 24 July, 2012
# credit-rating - Monday 16 July, 2012
In full: Ulster Bank's letter to customers
CEO Jim Brown has written to all customers to say that reconciliations to accounts will continue over the coming weeks.
# credit-rating - Friday 13 July, 2012
Moody's downgrades Italy by two notches
The credit rating agency has downgraded the third largest eurozone economy just hours ahead of its latest bond sale.
# credit-rating - Tuesday 26 June, 2012
Moody's downgrades 28 Spanish banks over debt concerns
Banks downgraded last night include one of the eurozone’s biggest – Banco Santander.
# credit-rating - Thursday 14 June, 2012
The 5 at 5: Thursday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
# credit-rating - Thursday 7 June, 2012
# credit-rating - Friday 6 April, 2012
# credit-rating - Monday 5 March, 2012
Moody's expects Ireland to require partial second bailout
The only ratings agency to rank Ireland at ‘junk’ status says Ireland will have difficulty getting back to the markets.
# credit-rating - Wednesday 22 February, 2012
Fitch: 'Highly likely' that Greece will default soon
The ratings agency has downgraded Greece just one day after EU leaders agreed on a €130 billion bailout deal for the country.
# credit-rating - Tuesday 14 February, 2012
Moody's downgrades six European countries - and warns of more to come
France and the UK were both warned that they could lose their coveted AAA credit rating.
# credit-rating - Sunday 15 January, 2012
Standard & Poor's defends mass European downgrade
The US-based credit rating agency has defended its decision after a sharp European backlash yesterday against its move to downgrade nine EU countries.
# credit-rating - Friday 13 January, 2012
The 5 at 5: Friday
5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock…
# credit-rating - Friday 6 January, 2012
Italian leader Monti to meet Sarkozy amid bond fears
Monti is seeking to persuade EU leaders that Italy’s mountain of debt does not pose a threat to the eurozone.
# credit-rating - Friday 16 December, 2011
Moody's downgrades Belgium's debt by 2 notches
Moody’s already rates Ireland’s bonds as junk – but now says that that outlook for Belgium is “negative”.
# credit-rating - Friday 9 December, 2011
Three top French banks downgraded by Moody's
The ratings agency says the ongoing euro crisis means the eurozone is a “fragile operating environment for European banks” at the moment.
# credit-rating - Friday 2 December, 2011
S&P downgrades Australia's four largest banks
Australia’s four largest banks – ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank and Westpac – have all been downgraded by S&P.
# credit-rating - Friday 25 November, 2011
# credit-rating - Wednesday 23 November, 2011
Belgium: Things are getting worse by the minute
A Belgian reader emails his take on the latest worrying developments there – and what action the country’s political leaders need to take.