Category: Authorities
-
Fine in the Millions Against Credit Rating Agency
-
After a Deferral
-
Role of Credit Rating Agencies in Implementing Sanctions
ESMA Chair, Verena Ross, takes a look at the rating market structure today, and sees that there are 24 CRAs in the EU registered with ESMA, located in 13 different Member States. She delivered a keynote speech at the European Association of Corporate Treasurers (EACT) Summit. Verena Ross spoke, among other things, about Credit Rating…
-
Disclosure Requirements for Initial Reviews and Preliminary Credit Ratings Discussed
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its “Final Report” with “Guidelines on Disclosure Requirements for Initial Reviews and Preliminary Ratings“. The purpose of these Guidelines is to deliver guidance that will address inconsistencies in the application of these requirements by Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs), and by extension reduce the risks that are posed…
-
Assumptions of Implicit Government Support
Why is it not wise to ignore an important dimension of the bank rating, not even for capital adequacy purposes? According to the Basel Framework as it will appear in the future on January 1, 2025, banks incorporated in jurisdictions that allow the use of external ratings for regulatory purposes will assign to their rated…
-
Olaf Scholz Did Not Care to Visit FIU
The raid on the German Ministry of Finance was the subject of a special meeting of the Bundestag Finance Committee this week. The background to the search are investigations into employees of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), who are said to have failed to forward information on terrorist financing to the judiciary and the police…
-
Rating Agency Violates Disclosure of Transparency Reports and More
CRA Transparency Reports 2021 “Transparency Reports” of credit rating agencies (CRAs) are published in accordance with Article 12 and Annex I, Section E.III of the EU Regulation on Credit Rating Agencies: (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 on credit rating agencies, as amended by Regulation (EU)…
-
ACRA partners with EDB and Armenia
Challenge of maintaining independence The Analytical Credit Rating Agency, Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), and the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Armenia have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding that establishes areas for cooperation between the aforementioned parties, the key goal of which is to stimulate economic growth in the Republic of Armenia and…
-
False Self-Portrayal of a Rating Agency
The misleading self-presentation of a local credit rating agency in Hamburg raised the question of what kind of representations are allowed.
-
Failsafe Test Case to Be Averted
Transactions of Lang & Schwarz Aktiengesellschaft are the subject of a tax audit, reports the company in a publication of inside information in accordance with Article 17 of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014. The subject of the tax audit is an examination of the business of Lang & Schwarz Aktiengesellschaft in the financial years 2007 to…
-
The Only Credit Rating Agency Recognized by BaFin
A not so unique rating agency
-
The Graveyard of Authorized Credit Rating Agencies in the European Union
Rating agencies have been registered in the European Union since 2010 in order to operate in accordance with the EU regulation on rating agencies of 2009 (CRAR). Dozens of agencies have therefore made use of the option, but also the obligation, to register or get certified. Rating agencies are only allowed to operate in the…
-
Credit Rating Agency Authorisation 2021
Links to websites of the Credit Rating Agencies authorized in the European Union. The credit rating agencies listed below have been registered or certified by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in accordance with the Credit Rating Agencies Regulation. Domains of websites are added. According to ESMA, the list was last updated on May…
-
Looking for a Rating Methodology – Where?
-
Dear Customer, Which Methodology Would You Like?
-
Disclosure Requirements Are a First Step to SPACs Rating Criteria
No blank check for SPACs. Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are shell companies that are admitted to trading on a trading venue with the intention to acquire a business and are often referred to as “blank check companies”. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) encourages National Competent Authorities (NCAs) to focus their scrutiny of…
-
No Vaccination Against Bad Loans
Keynote of Prof. Dr. Joachim Wuermeling, Deutsche Bundesbank, at NPL Forum in Frankfurt am Main. “NPL dismantling” provides one of the keywords for the speech of Prof. Dr. Joachim Wuermeling, Member of the board of the Deutsche Bundesbank. In his keynote at the Frankfurt School’s NPL Forum he widens the view and takes a look…
-
Insolvent Greensill Bank Relied on “Scope Risk Solutions”
-
Scope’s Greensill Bank Rating Tragedy
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) filed criminal charges Against The Bank’s Board Members. The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) in Germany received monthly reports from Greensill Bank AG (Greensill Bank) about the bank’s balance sheet data from January 2019 on. This is evident from the answer given by Parliamentary State Secretary Sarah Ryglewski on…
-
Scope Ratings Sluices of Money Creation
-
Clever Commission from the City of Münster in Westphalia
An automated safety net for municipal investments has not existed since 2017. If municipalities do not want to set up extensive bond research departments themselves, in which financial analysts examine thousands of qualitative data and annual financial statements from issuers of financial products, the municipalities depend on the independent judgments of reliable credit rating agencies…
-
Scope Ratings Game of Corporate Law
The “Scope Group” is a bunch of constant changes under company law. As a result of the Scope Ratings GmbH billion Euro scandal about Greensill Bank in Bermen, which was rated as “investment grade” for the first time in 2019 and is now insolvent, the precise activities of this local rating agency in Berlin have…
-
Scope Ratings’ Ancillary Services for Greensill Bank
Scope Ratings’ hint to possible additional payments by Greensill Bank to the Berlin rating agency leaves questions unanswered.
-
Scope Group Not Within the Scope of ESMA
The scandal surrounding Greensill Bank and the credit rating of Scope Ratings GmbH for this bank raises the question of how the situation at the Scope Group got out of control.
-
Moratorium at the Bremen CRR credit institution
Bank is closed due to lack of evidence of the existence of receivables in its balance sheet.
-
Collection of Contributions by The Institutional Protection Scheme of EdB
A credit institution is an undertaking which conducts at least one of the banking businesses described in detail in section 1 (1) of the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz) commercially or on a scale which requires commercially organised business operations. The banking businesses include the deposit business and credit business, but also specific securities-related activities such…
-
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 information format for consumers with immediate effect: “Let’s talk about money”. Exciting aspects from various basic finance topics shall be…
-
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, but by unknown third parties. HTG Consulting GmbH became victim of identity theft. On December 3, 2020, BaFin reported, among…
-
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 development of the credit investigation industry. This is formulated in accordance with the “Civil Code of the People’s Republic of…
-
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 2013 “Regulations on the Administration of Credit Investigation Industry” and the “Administrative Measures for Credit Investigation Institutions”. The “Measures” have…
-
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 “otc-markets.eu” does not belong to the US company OTC Markets Group Inc. “This is a case of identity theft committed…
-
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 and especially for ratings of financial service providers. FATF publishes a consolidated table of assessment ratings. On the basis of…
^^^ RATING EVIDENCE GmbH 