Moody’s Credit Trends 2021 Germany & Austria “As last year has shown, a global pandemic can turn everything upside down,” says Jens Schmidt-Bürgel in an interview with Sigmar Gabriel and starts talking about the greatest […]
Is The Notion of Efficiency Alien to Charity?
there are minimum requirements for recognized non-profit organizations. But can their efficiency and effectiveness also be rated? At effective-spenden.org Sebastian Schwiecker, founder and managing director of UES – Gemeinnützige Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschränkt) für effektives Spenden, tries […]
The Virus Reverses Gender Equality, Not Only An Issue for Impact Investors
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the lives of countless people around the world, with women being the hardest hit. Not only because they have a higher risk of COVID-19 infection due to their work […]
China Emerges as a Winner From The Corona Year 2020
China is one of the very few economies that were able to record growth last year, writes DZ BANK in its “Macroeconomics – Economic Perspectives – Economics Weekly“. In the final quarter, the Chinese economy […]
Lack of Financial Education
“You do not talk about money.” This is a common saying in German. “You do not talk about money? But we should! ”- under this motto, Austria’s Financial Market Authority (FMA) is launching a new […]
BaFin Corrects False Warning Against A Real Company And Warns Against Fake Business of a Doppelganger
Following its consumer report of December 3, 2020, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) now makes it clear on January 18, 2021 that the activity as “asset manager” is not used by HTG Consulting GmbH, […]
Art Market Picking Up
Players’ confidence in the art market is improving, measured live by Artprice.com. The theoretic principles behind this index are as simple as the ones behind the Consumer Sentiment Index in the US. This index constitutes […]
Quality Face Masks Are Among The Top Ten Donation Requests
Donations are resources. Who donates invests. Therefore, every donor is interested in how likely it is that the goals of the donation will be achieved. Assessing and classifying this probability of reaching the aims of […]
How To Run A Credit Reporting Agency In China
The People’s Bank of China issued a Draft for comments on “Measures for the Administration of Credit Investigation Services“. It is intended to regulate the credit investigation business and related activities, and promote the healthy […]
China’s Administrative Measures for Credit Investigation And Regulations on the Administration of Credit Investigation Industry
On January 11, 2021 the People’s Bank of China announced the “Administrative Measures for Credit Investigation (Draft for Comment)”. This is another heavy new regulation that the credit reporting industry will usher in after the […]
Well on track with around 50% growth
The business development of artec technologies AG (ISIN DE0005209589) in 2020 was positive overall, despite challenges related to the corona pandemic, reports the company from Diepholz / Bremen. After annual sales that increased by around […]
Six UK-Based Credit Rating Agencies Lost Their Registrations
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the supervisor of European Union (EU) credit rating agencies (CRAs), has withdrawn the registrations of CRAs based in the United Kingdom (UK). ESMA’s decisions follow the end of […]
Simple Protection Against Investment Fraud
594 victims of financial frauds reported to the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) in 2020 – the highest figure in an upward trend in fraud cases that has been going on for years. The average […]
IOSCO’s Profiling of Investors’ Risk Appetite
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) issued a report with some remarkable findings. Given its mission to assist regulators in responding to the retail market conduct issues caused by stress events such as the […]
Rock Tech Rocking The Market
What made the stock price of Rock Tech Lithium Inc. (Rock Tech) double within just two months? The answer might be here: Apeiron Investment Group, the family office of serial entrepreneur and investor Christian Angermayer […]
Mitigate Operational Risks By Using FFP2 Face Masks
For companies in which employees cannot always keep a safe distance from another, the infection of individual employees and the consequential officially ordered quarantine measures can result in major economic losses. Companies can effectively counteract […]
Vectron’s Recurring Income Strengthens Its Rating
Vectron Systems AG (Vectron), a leading provider of intelligent, digitized cash register systems consisting of hardware, software and cloud services, with a focus on the gastronomy and bakery sectors, has created itself a better position […]
Western Countries Still Lack Systems To Fight Identity Theft
The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) published an urgent announcement “21.12.2020 | Topic Consumer protection: Warning regarding the website ‘otc-markets.eu’”. Regardless of the warning, the website is still active: BaFin advises that the website […]
Why Art Rating Criteria Need To Be Repaired
The Artprice Report, covering 20 years of Contemporary Art auction history, is a basis for understanding why evidence-based “art rating” is more important and urgent today than ever before. The complexity and global nature of […]
From Alibaba as “Amazon of China” to Amazon as “Alibaba of the USA”
“Innovative market leaders can excel in emerging countries”, writes a clever investor in his “Christmas letter”, who may be quoted here, but wants to remain anonymous, since his letter is only addressed to his “investors […]
How A Credit Rating Agency Should Determine the Weights of ESG Criteria
Moody’s “General Principles for Assessing Environmental, Social and Governance Risks” relate to issues which may have greater downside risk than upside potential for rated issuers. The introduction of these principles is perceived by many issuers […]
German Medium-Sized Bond Issuers Avoid German Government Loans
The financial reports of medium-sized bond issuers in Germany published in 2020 were evaluated and analyzed by URA Research. The URA ratings for 7 bonds were confirmed. According to the report from Munich, the assessment […]
Future Divisional Structure of S&P Global
S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) and IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO) announced the future divisional structure of the combined company, effective upon completing their pending merger: Divisional Structure S&P Global Ratings will be led by Martina Cheung, […]
Double-edged Strengthening of Banks’ Equity
A few days after the European Central Bank and the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) is now recommending that distributions continue to be restrictive in view of the […]
DEFAMA’s Gemstones Among German Commercial Real Estate
The Berlin-based Deutsche Fachmarkt AG (DEFAMA) invests specifically in small retail properties in small and medium-sized cities, predominantly in northern and eastern Germany. The most important purchase criteria are two or more chain stores with […]
Lloyd Howell
On December 18, 2020, Moody’s Corporation announced that Mr. Lloyd Howell has been elected as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, effective as of March 15, 2021. Lloyd Howell also has been elected […]
FATF and BaFin Ratings
The European Union (EU) and Financial Action Task Force (FATF) lists countries with deficits in the fight against money laundering, terrorist financing and the financing of proliferation. The lists have far-reaching implications for country ratings […]
CoStar: A Star Rising Higher
The Washington based CoStar Group (WKN: 922134 / ISIN: US22160N1090, Symbol: CSGP), with a staff of over 4,300 worldwide, is a company to watch in the rating industry, since CoStar is a leading provider of […]
Shenzhen – The World Economy of Tomorrow
You can read it in old German travel guides: Shenzhen was once a fishing village. Shenzhen is not mentioned in the five-volume “Der Neue Brockhaus” from 1975. In 1993, the renowned Brockhaus Encyclopedia reported in […]
Moody’s Heatmap Shows Heightened Environmental Credit Risk
Moody’s analysts have revised their environmental classification to reflect evolving environmental, social and governance standards, disclosure frameworks and market conventions among issuers and investors. Environmental risks can arise from regulatory and policy issues, hazards or […]
S&P And Moody’s Are Losing Market Share in the EU
For the first time, the European Securities and Markets Authority ESMA has reported a decline in market shares in Europe for both of the major US rating agencies. The authority thus discloses a remarkable development. […]
Screen Applicants Faster
With the Talent Report™ Select All solution, Equifax (NYSE: EFX) facilitates faster, more-informed hiring decisions for talent acquisition professionals with reliable verifications of employment via The Work Number® database. Talent Report Select All delivers contextual […]
Next Generation Financial Services: Digital transformation and new services
Oliver Everling and Robert Lempka (editors): Next Generation Financial Services: Digital Transformation and New Services, Frankfurt am Main 2020, Frankfurt School Verlag, 480 pages, ISBN (print) 978-3-95647-176-6. The digital transformation of the financial industry is […]
Social Credit Rating
Oliver Everling (editor): Social Credit Rating, Wiesbaden 2020, Springer Gabler Verlag, eBook ISBN 978-3-658-29653-7, Softcover ISBN 978-3-658-29652-0. Social credit ratings are the result of social credit systems. These include online rating or scoring systems which […]
Toward A Reputation State: A Comprehensive View of China’s Social Credit System Project
China’s Social Credit System Project (the “SCSP”) is one of the most misunderstood recent developments in China’s law and policy. In the book “Social Credit Rating“, Xin Dai offers a comprehensive conceptual thesis that explains […]
2020 Becomes the First Year of Digital Currency
From October 8th to 18th, 2020, Luohu District, Shenzhen, China, conducted a digital currency experiment, issuing digital currency red envelopes totaling 10 million RMB (approximately 1.5 million Dollars). From the 8th to the 11th October, […]
57 Registered Credit Rating Agencies in China
Here is the most recent list of 57 registered credit rating agencies in the People’s Republic of China as of October 11, 2020:
Reflections on China’s Credit Reporting Practice
Prof. Wu Jingmei discusses in her contribution to the book “Social Credit Rating” the current situation, logic and development trends of China’s credit reporting system. China’s credit reporting system is composed of financial, commercial and […]
Retail Investors Benefit From the Quant IP Innovation Score
The Munich investment boutique Quant IP is launching a new tranche for private investors for its equity fund Quant IP Global Innovation Leaders Fund. This gives investors the opportunity to invest small sums in the […]
A Study on the Typological Regulation of the Dishonesty Punishment – also on the Rule Design of the Social Credit Law
The punishment of dishonesty is an important content of the credit rule of law, writes Wang Wei in the book “Social Credit Rating“. “The punishment of dishonesty is not a precise legal concept,” he says, […]
No Movement! Data or Life!
For many people it has become a reality: life is completely monitored. Hence it is no longer a question of whether life is, can or should be observed by strangers. It’s all about how, according […]
Groundbreaking Multifunctional Monitoring and Surveillance System for Compliance with Corona Hygiene Protection Measures
Artec technologies AG (ISIN DE0005209589) is now offering a multifunctional monitoring and monitoring system for compliance with corona hygiene protection measures called MULTIEYE OverCrowding Watch App. The software is based on existing artec products that […]
Risk Culture as a Means of Mitigating Conduct Risk
Thomas Kaiser and Tatjana Schulz write in their contribution to the book “Social Credit Rating” about the similarities with and differences to the China Social Credit System: Banks around the world have been exposed to […]
Determinants of Consumer Credit Default in Romania: A Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms
Prof. Dr. Monica Dudian and Ana-Maria Sandica investigate the separation power of several machine learning techniques and compared them with the benchmark logistic regression using real data from 17520 private individuals of a Romanian commercial […]
Credit Rating Information Failed to Deliver
AvP Deutschland GmbH is an example of a rating dilemma: The company is too small to belong to the group of companies closely monitored by recognized rating agencies automatically, and too large to be ignored […]
SME Rating Dilemma
Small and medium-sized companies have difficulties communicating their creditworthiness credibly. Recognized credit rating agencies concentrate their services on companies that go through a committee-based rating process. The legal framework in Europe offers no alternative to […]
Separation of Product Comparison, Brokerage and Insurance Services
Any rating company who does not limit itselve to the comparison of financial services, but also insures the customer against risks, must obtain approval for this. There is no free market for financial services in […]
Legal Characteristics of Forest Ownership
At the federal and state level, there are laws on forests in Germany that must be taken into account with every rating of forest investments. The federal states regulate rights and obligations differently. In the […]
The Social Credit System and China’s Rule of Law
In 2014, the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) central government formally declared the construction of a Social Credit System (SCS) a national task. Meanwhile, government-designated localities and companies are experimenting with scoring systems for businesses, […]
Genealogy of Country Risk
It is difficult to determine exactly when the concept of country risk was forged. The expression was used as far back as 1967 by Frederick Dahl – then assistant director of the Division of Examinations […]
Consumer Reporting Agency Against Bonus Hoppers
“If you want to purchase electricity and gas cheaply, you have to compare prices and, if necessary, change providers. Energy suppliers obviously want to change that with Schufa and a credit agency.” An article about […]
Cost Rating For Private Owners When Renting
Real estate remains the most popular form of investment among Germans. In times of volatile stock markets, a real estate investment is still seen by many private investors as a secure return opportunity. However, not […]
Unfair Advertising With Ratings On Social Media Platforms
Advertising with ratings on social media platforms that are given in return for participating in a competition is unfair. It can be assumed that a lottery will generate a considerable number of ratings. The Higher […]
An Economic Approach to China’s Social Credit System
In an effort to increase trustworthiness across society, the Chinese government has been building its Social Credit System since 2014. This system targets all natural and legal persons in China and consists of four major […]
A Case of Rating Repair for a Small Publicly Traded Company
A small publicly listed company is a company whose shares are bought and sold on a particular stock market even though turnover or total assets are small in comparison to other listed companies. Every big […]
Credit Rating and Residual Debt Insurance
The question of the extent to which the creditworthiness of the borrower has an impact on the take out of a residual debt insurance is repeatedly the subject of discussions, i.e. whether consumers with lower […]
Trust In a Time of Uncertainty
The corona pandemic is far from over. This is especially true if you do not look at it from a purely medical point of view, but also from the perspective of the social and economic […]
How the Authority Determines Whether a Board Member Has Sufficient Time
Within the scope of the Banking Act, the notification of intent to appoint a management board member must include the material facts for an assessment of whether sufficient time is available for the performance of […]
Management Board Members Must Submit a Certificate of Good Conduct for Official Purposes
Depending on their nationality and place of residence, management board members must submit the original copy of a “certificate of good conduct for presentation to a German authority (certificate of good conduct for official purposes)” […]
Data for Bank Management Board Member’s Reputation Rating
The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht – BaFin) provides some insights into what kind of data is used to establish a bank management board member’s reputation rating in its Guidance Notice on […]
Professional and Personal Requirements for Persons Appointed as Management Board Members
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht – BaFin) provided a Guidance Notice on management board members pursuant to the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz – KWG), the German Payment Services Supervision Act […]
Credit Rating Criteria for Leasing Companies
Under the umbrella of the Auditing Association of German Banks, GBB-Rating Gesellschaft für Bonitätsbeurteil mbH (hereinafter referred to as “GBB-Rating”) provides long-term credit ratings of leasing companies. GBB-Rating has published criteria for the rating of leasing companies in German […]
Leasing Company Rating
Leasing companies have been analyzed by leading US credit rating agencies for decades. In addition to these rating agencies, there are other rating approaches for leasing companies. Three of these are briefly presented here. The […]
The Road Ahead For Social Credit Rating
In the book “Social Credit Rating” you can read a lot about the nature and content of the social credit system, learn about governance, law and sustainability, as well as methods, models and functions. But […]
Country Risk: The Bane of Foreign Investors
Country Risk: The Bane of Foreign Investors (by Norbert Gaillard, Springer, July 2020) is an original and innovative research work. Chapter 1 introduces the key concepts. Chapter 2 establishes that impediments to international business preceded […]
More Than 300 Raters Worldwide
There is a simple definition of the word “rater”: “one that rates”. A rater is specifically a person who estimates or determines a rating. Not every rater is a rating agency. In a number of […]
Rating Forest Investments
Understanding the importance of sustainability has popularized an asset class that used to be reserved for the state, churches and nobles. Forest – to be precise its wood – has always served people as fuel, […]
30 Registered Credit Rating Agencies in China
The credit rating industry in China has a history of more than 30 years. According to the “Interim Measures for the Administration of the Credit Rating Industry”, which came came into force on December 26, […]
What Happens When You Become A Founder and Start a New Rating Agency?
What happens when you start a new rating agency and become a founder? The 4 Ps are used here to identify some key factors for a new rating agency, including what investors and issuers want […]
Rating in Austria
The Recognized Credit Rating Agencies listed by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) have been registered or certified in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of […]
Recognized Credit Rating Agencies
There are almost 200 countries in the world. Many countries do not have specific regulations on rating activities, but most industrialized countries do have laws on Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs). Credit Rating Agencies are required […]
Rating Repair of a German Hotel Consulting Company’s Credit Report
How does rating repair work in practice? The following is an example. A full rating repair needs even more than shown here, but this real example of a real company gives a first impression of […]
Recognized Credit Rating Agencies in Russia
ACRA Analytical Credit Rating Agency The Russian Government set a minimum credit rating for banks that service federal budget funds (the document is published on the official website of the Russian Federation Ministry of Finance […]
National Securities and Stock Market Commission of Ukraine Registered Credit Rating Agencies
In Ukraine, a person acquires the right to define ratings from the date of the issuance of the Certificate on Inclusion into The State Register of Authorized Rating Agencies.
Banco Central de Uruguay Registered Credit Rating Agencies
Here is a list of Credit Rating Agencies registered by the Banco Central de Uruguay:
Monetary Authority of Singapore Encourages Ratings By Singapore-dollar Credit Rating Grant
The European Commission’s decision to repeal the equivalence status for Singapore Credit Rating Agencies does not impact the operations of Credit Rating Agencies in Singapore. As confirmed by the European Commission, Credit Rating Agencies in […]
Securities and Exchange Commission Thailand Approved Credit Rating Agencies
The following rating agencies shall be Credit Rating Agencies approved by the Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand to issue credit rating for instruments or businesses related to issuance and offer for […]
Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores Supervised Credit Rating Agencies
Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (CNBV) main function is to inform the market about the real risks that the investing public faces in financial intermediation. Regulation is essential for greater transparency in its actions […]
Suruhanjaya Sekuriti Securities Commission Malaysia Committed to Allow ASEAN-Owned Credit Rating Agencies in Malaysia
Under the Working Committee on Financial Services Liberalisation, the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) completed the Eighth Package of Financial Services Commitments (Eighth Package), which was signed by the Association of South-East Asian Nations […]