Tag: Company
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A doubtful future in Sweden
Evolution from stable to negative, as expected (see RATING.REPAIR): Ilija Batljan Invest AB (IB Invest) is a Swedish holding company with a dominant core holding in SBB i Norden. SBB i Norden is a real estate company or an entity involved in real estate investments. The company has recently proposed postponing its dividend payments, leading…
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Scope Downgrades Ilija Batljan Invest AB to BB+/Stable from BBB-/Stable
Ilija Batljan Invest’s deteriorated total cost coverage and increase in leverage, which Scope does not expect to recover in the short-to-medium term, drive the downgrade. It happened the way it had to. Here on RATING.REPAIR, we pointed out two years ago that the rating of this company needs to be repaired. Scope Ratings GmbH (Scope)…
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It Happened the Way it Had To
The news is not entirely unexpected, as this company became a case for RATING©REPAIR some time ago (see here). Samhällsbyggnadsbolaget i Norden AB (publ) (SBB) is now taking measures to prevent the credit rating from slipping after all. Now the company is selling two properties in Norrtälje for an agreed property value of approximately SEK…
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New Political and Economic Burdens Ignored
Scope affirms Ilija Batljan Invest AB’s issuer rating at BBB-/Stable. This news must come as a surprise given the current economic and political challenges that have meanwhile added to the factors that already made an “investment grade” rating seem questionable last year.
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Bureau Veritas Helps to Find More Truth About ESG
Bureau Veritas has an interesting and promising position to support companies on their way to more sustainability. Bureau Veritas helps companies, governments and public authorities reduce their risks in terms of health, quality, safety, environmental protection and social responsibility. Those challenges are central to societal aspirations. Bureau Veritas is a world leader in laboratory testing,…
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Ilija Batljan’s Rating Shopping Spree
Are upgrades driven by improvements in creditworthiness or by hopping from agency to agency? The activities of self-made millionaire Ilija Batljan are too conspicuous to be ignored in the financial markets. Ilija Batljan came to Sweden from Montenegro. He moved to Sweden in 1993 during the breakup of his native Yugoslavia and in 1996 earned…
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Failure for Euler Hermes Rating – But Happy Ending
Takeover without losing face.
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In 2020 DEFAMA Once Again Achieved Highs in All Key Figures
DEFAMA promised to publish the audited figures and the 2020 annual report at the end of April 2021. According to preliminary and unaudited figures, Deutsche Fachmarkt AG (DEFAMA) achieved a consolidated net income of € 2.5 (2.1) million or € 2.5 (2.1) million in the 2020 financial year with sales of € 14.8 (previous year:…
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Moody’s Corporation Reports Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 with Bright Outlook for Full Year 2021
https://ir.moodys.com/news-and-financials/press-releases/press-release-details/2021/Moodys-Corporation-Reports-Results-for-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2020-Sets-Outlook-for-Full-Year-2021/default.aspx
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Extended Lockdown Tensions the Spring for a Higher Jump in Sales at Vectron Systems
The listed Vectron Systems AG assumes that when the corona lockdown ends, strong demand for its products can be expected. This is especially against the background that so far only 30 to 40 percent of the target industry, catering, have converted their till systems in accordance with the new legal regulations. This is also indicated…
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Federal Finance Minister’s Speculators
Issuers must be concerned about the damage to the image of the German financial center caused by the inadequate supervision of BaFIn by the Federal Ministry of Finance. As part of the federal administration, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) in Germany is subject to the legal and technical supervision of the Federal Ministry of…
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Equifax Acquires AccountScoreC
Facilitated by the acquisition of AccountScore, Equifax enhances its consumer and commercial product offerings, combining traditional credit bureau information held by Equifax with bank transaction data. Regulatory approval for the acquisition has been received from the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Integration of these new data assets will enable Equifax clients to benefit from…
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How Sustainable is Tesla’s Bitcoin Investment?
Tesla holds and may acquire digital assets that may be subject to volatile market prices, impairment and unique risks of loss. “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed.” This is the terse statement from the US automotive company on the FORM 10-K…
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Capital Market Rating
Oliver Everling and Jens Schmidt-Bürgel (editors): Capital Market Rating: Perspectives for Corporate Financing, Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Th. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1st edition December 2005, http://www.gabler-verlag.de, hardcover, 318 pages, ISBN 3-409-14242-8. The financing requirements for companies have changed considerably in recent years. There is a trend from bank-oriented to capital-market-driven financing culture, and corporate bonds are becoming an…
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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 as an additional pressure that weighs on them in order to prove their sustainable management. This pressure is unsettling, especially…
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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 story starts small. Therefore, among small companies there are often also stock corporations with exceptionally high potential for a good…
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First Quality Check On A Credit Reporting Agency: Creditsafe
This article is about the credit reporting agency Creditsafe, the performance of the company and a concrete example of what a credit report from Creditsafe looks like in practice. Details of the offer are examined and discussed in detail. We carry out a fact check based on the official data from the Federal Gazette of…
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CleanTech Rating: CleanTech Investment and Financing – Companies and Projects
Oliver Everling (Editor): Cleantech Rating: Investment and Financing of Cleantech – Companies and Projects, Kindle Edition (Amazon Media EU S.à rl), RATING EVIDENCE GmbH, 1st Edition Frankfurt am Main 2015, 268 pages, ASIN: B00QFNHAQ8. “Cleantech” is not a new buzzword, but names the consistent continuation of a fundamental trend. Clean technologies encompass all products and…
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Basel III: Impact of the New Banking Supervision Law on SMEs
Oliver Everling and Rainer Langen (publisher): Basel III: Effects of the New Banking Supervision Law on the Mittelstand, Bank-Verlag GmbH, 1st Edition Cologne 2013, 199 pages, Art. 22486-1300, ISBN 978-3-86556-354-5. The book is aimed in particular at the corporate clients of banks who, as with Basel II, are now asking about the consequences of Basel…
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Transparency Rating: Paths to Efficient Analysis and Valuation of Corporate Accounting
Oliver Everling, Peter Schaub and Rolf Stephan (publisher): Transparency Rating: Paths to Efficient Analysis and Valuation of Corporate Accounting (German Edition), Gabler Verlag – Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, http://www.gabler.de/, 242 pages , Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8349-3365-2. The contributions of the anthology revolve around the financial reporting of companies from the different perspectives of the authors.…
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Financial Communication: Opportunities Through Credit Mediation
Frank Armbruster, Oliver Everling and Rainer Langen (publisher): Financial Communication: Opportunities through Credit Mediation, Bank-Verlag Medien GmbH, http://www.bank-verlag-medien.de/, Cologne 2011, Art. 22,474-1100, ISBN 978-3-86556-262-3. At the end of 2009, the Federal Government of Germany decided to commission a credit intermediary with the implementation of the credit intermediation procedure. Since then, a number of different private-sector…
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Buy, Rent and Lease in the Rating
Christoph J. Börner, Oliver Everling and Robert Soethe (publisher): Buy, Rent and Lease in the Rating: Assessing the Financing Paths of Long-lived Assets Reliably, Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Dr. Th. Gabler, Wiesbaden, http://www.gabler-verlag.de, hardcover, 1st edition 2008, 305 pages, ISBN 978-3-8349-0543-7. Businesses depend on the use of long-lived assets in their business activities. In addition to the…
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Rating Software
Werner Gleißner, and Oliver Everling (publisher): Rating Software. Which Products Are Used by Whom ?, Verlag Franz Vahlen, http://www.vahlen.de, Munich 2007, 448 pages, ISBN 978-3-8006-3248-0. For many medium-sized companies, the question of improving their own rating results is currently being raised, even if they want to compete for debt capital in the future after the…
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Financial Rating
Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Oliver Everling and Karl A. Niggemann (Publisher): Financial Rating: Design Options for Improving the Creditworthiness, Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Th. Gabler, Wiesbaden, 1. edition January 2007, http://www.gabler-verlag.de, hardcover, 275 pages, ISBN 978-3-8349-0245-0. Within the scope of corporate financing, there is a need for each company to document its own balance sheet credit rating. Especially lenders…
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Succession Rating
Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Oliver Everling and Stefan Klemm (publisher): Successor Rating: Rating as an Opportunity for Company Succession: Rating as an Instrument of Medium-sized Company Succession, Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Th. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1st edition January 2006, http://www.gabler-verlag.de, hardcover, 366 pages, ISBN 3-409-14327-0. The topics “medium-sized business succession” and “rating” are closely interwoven. At the latest when the…
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Capital Market Rating
Oliver Everling and Jens Schmidt-Bürgel (publisher): Capital Market Rating: Perspectives for Corporate Financing, Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Th. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1st edition December 2005, http://www.gabler-verlag.de, hardcover, 318 pages, ISBN 3-409-14242-8. The financing requirements for companies have changed considerably in recent years. There is a trend from bank-oriented to capital-market-driven financing culture, and corporate bonds are becoming an…
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Legal Issues in Ratings
Ann-Kristin Achleitner and Oliver Everling (Editor): Legal Issues in Ratings: Fundamentals and Implications of Ratings for Agencies, Investors and Companies Advised, Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Th. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1st edition November 2005, http://www.gabler-verlag.de, hardcover, 470 pages, ISBN 3-409-14314-9. The issuing of ratings by external rating agencies as well as internal ratings are of increasing relevance for the…
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Rating Practice Manual
Ann-Kristin Achleitner and Oliver Everling (Publisher): Rating Practice Manual: Answers to the Challenge Basel II, Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Th. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1st edition May 2004, http://www.gabler-verlag.de, hardcover, 952 pages, ISBN 3-409-12523-X. How is the rating market organized? What is the best possible preparation for a rating? How can you use and improve ratings? Renowned experts point…
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Rating – Opportunity for SMEs According to Basel II
Oliver Everling (Publisher): Rating – Opportunity for SMEs according to Basel II. Concepts for Credit Assessment, Key to Financing, Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Th. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1st edition December 2001, http://www.gabler-verlag.de, hardcover, 700 pages, ISBN 3-409-11812-8. As recently as the 1980s, ratings in the German-speaking world were regarded as a peculiarity of the US capital markets. At…
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