Our research provides insights about governments and public sector entities around the world, their challenges, and our views on where they stand in the face of current and future market developments.
Semiannually Publication of dates for sovereign, regional, and local government ratings, and related outlooks, as required by European Union Credit Rating Agency Regulation.
Ongoing An update of the country risk assessments by group and country, as well as regional risk assessments and latest country risk actions. S&P Global Ratings defines “country risk” as the broad range of economic, institutional, financial market, and legal risks that arise from doing business with, or in, a specific country and can affect a nonsovereign entity’s credit quality.
Annually A comprehensive list of government-related entities (GREs) in China, including ratings and outlook, stand-alone credit profile (SACP), related government, role, link, likelihood of support, and industry.
Ongoing Ranking assessments reflect S&P Global Ratings’ opinion as to how effectively, in practice, the country’s insolvency laws protect creditor interests (creditor friendliness) and about payment culture/rule of law risk based on the methodology for assessing country risk.
Ongoing Deep dive into specific public finance systems, offering insight into relevant strengths and weaknesses, recent developments, and trends. It includes main factors such as predictability, revenue and expenditure balance, and transparency and accountability.
Annually Survey of sovereign debt, borrowing trends, and outlook, compiling data for all rated sovereigns for the global publication, and for specific regions: Asia-Pacific, EMEA Emerging and Developed Markets, and Latin American and Caribbean.
Monthly An overview of rated sovereigns, including current and historical transfer & convertibility assessments, rating actions, and trends.
Monthly A compilation of all rated sovereign governments and their assigned country transfer and convertibility (T&C) assessments. A T&C assessment is associated with the likelihood of the sovereign restricting nonsovereign-access to foreign exchange needed for debt service.
Monthly A listing of all rated sovereigns and the scores of the key rating factors of the ratings.
Ongoing Global and regional reports that include ratings and outlook trends as well as sovereign-specific summaries.
Ongoing Reports that contain historical, estimated, and forecasted comparative statistics for rated sovereigns. They include economic, government, and monetary data, balance of payments information, and external balance sheet data.
Annually Publication on multilateral lending institutions (MLIs) and other nonbank supranational institutions. It includes supranationals’ performance, summary analyses, and comparison of financial data.
Annually Comparative data for a number of supranational institutions that have public ratings. The data includes S&P Global Ratings’ preferred creditor treatment (PCT) ratio, which measures how much an institution benefits from its PCT status, as well as additional ratios related to an institution’s governance structure and extraordinary shareholder support in the form of eligible callable capital.