Our research provides insights about public sector entities around the world, their challenges, and our views on where they stand in the face of current and future market developments.
Explanation of a credit rating action on a debt issue. In addition, rating actions on a group of issuers can be bundled and published as rating actions news, without individual research updates. The report provides the rating action rationales for the group of entities or sector, followed by entity-specific rationales, reflecting the view of a rating committee.
Overview and rationale of a credit rating action taken at the issuer level, including comments on newly assigned ratings, rating changes, outlook or CreditWatch revisions, as well as a rating score snapshot with added explanations. In addition, a table with selected economic indicators and forecast may be provided.
Quick and timely report addressing a particular development or event that has no current impact on the credit rating of an issuer.
Detailed reports on individual public finance entities, providing the issuer credit rating (ICR) and insights into key rating factors, outlook and rationale of the rating, among other considerations.
To provide additional disclosure and transparency to the market, from mid-November 2021, S&P Global Ratings started publishing ESG credit indicators for individual companies in the corporate and infrastructure, and insurance sectors; other asset classes will be covered during 2022. These indicators will initially be released through the ESG credit indicator report cards for the relevant sector. Subsequently, they will be incorporated and updated in S&P Global Ratings’ issuer- and issue-specific publications to complement the existing credit rating analysis and surveillance.