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  • Monday, 18 January, 2021
    Fitch invests in AI start-up to improve bank misconduct detection

    Credit rating agency seeks to expand how it evaluates lenders’ riskiness amid raft of scandals

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Financial services
    Fitch to buy CreditSights in bid to bolster debt research

    Ratings group builds up its specialist services as the debt market swells in size

  • Sunday, 3 January, 2021
    Oil & Gas industry
    Default warning as US energy sector’s financial woes persist

    Fitch says the industry could account for one-third of junk bond defaults in 2021

  • Tuesday, 11 August, 2020
    EU economy
    EU’s top credit rating can survive €750bn stimulus, say agencies

    Divisions on taxes do not threaten triple A status, according to Moody’s and Fitch

  • Friday, 31 July, 2020
    US economy
    Fitch cuts US outlook as federal deficit climbs

    Rating agency predicts government debt will reach 130% of gross domestic product in 2021

  • Monday, 20 July, 2020
    UK Sinha
    Rating agencies owe the market more transparency

    In a crisis, investors want information about relative strengths and weaknesses not just downgrades

  • Monday, 22 June, 2020
    Investing in funds
    Fund suspensions underline liquidity mismatches

    Market stress will force reappraisal of vehicles invested in less liquid asset classes

  • Monday, 4 May, 2020
    Fund management
    Central banks prop up fund industry with $100bn injection

    Fitch says scale of support points to the systemic importance of $55tn asset management market

  • Wednesday, 29 April, 2020
    Sovereign bonds
    Fitch cuts Italy’s credit rating to one notch above junk

    Country’s bond prices weaken after downgrade that reflects economic impact of coronavirus

  • Promoted Content
  • Friday, 3 April, 2020
    Capital markets
    Rating agencies brace for backlash after rash of downgrades

    Critics claim S&P, Moody’s and Fitch might be poised for rerun of 2008 financial crisis

  • Monday, 30 March, 2020
    Banks
    Bad debt surge threatens Chinese banks’ balance sheets

    Beijing has called on lenders to boost economy and support companies hit by coronavirus

  • Saturday, 28 March, 2020
    UK business & economy
    Fitch downgrades UK debt citing coronavirus impact

    Agency cuts rating to AA- and points to worsening fiscal outlook and Brexit uncertainty

  • Monday, 9 March, 2020
    Quant investing
    Students flock to study quant finance in record numbers

    Enrollees from India and China make up a third of intake

  • Monday, 13 January, 2020
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    Credit ratings, like dodgy boilers, can still blow up the house

    Systemic flaws that helped stoke the financial crisis threaten to wreak havoc again

  • Thursday, 2 January, 2020
    News in-depthScope Ratings AG
    Scope faces uphill struggle to crack credit rating market

    The German company has ambitions to be a European rival to S&P, Moody’s and Fitch

  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2019
    UK house prices
    Brexit fears to leave UK among weakest housing markets — Fitch

    House prices set to fall in real terms on concerns of ‘cliff edge’ by end of 2020

  • Friday, 29 November, 2019
    Eurozone economy
    Eurozone at risk of Japan-style stagnation, Fitch warns

    Rating agency says Greece, Italy and Portugal most likely to follow deflationary path

  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2019
    WeWork
    Bill Ackman says WeWork could be worth ‘zero’

    Rating agency, hedge fund manager and ex-SoftBank chief warn on prospects

  • Monday, 30 September, 2019
    Saudi Arabia
    Fitch cuts Saudi Arabia debt rating after attacks on oil facilities

    Credit agency says Riyadh remains vulnerable as tensions in the Gulf intensify

  • Friday, 16 August, 2019
    Argentina
    Fitch downgrades Argentina after peso’s collapse

    Rating agency cites debt risks after Macri loses primary vote to rival Fernández

  • Friday, 26 July, 2019
    South Africa
    Fitch cuts outlook on South Africa’s credit rating to negative
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2019
    Leveraged loans
    Loan market turns ugly as beauty company is downgraded

    Fitch lowers rating for debt of eyebrow cosmetics specialist Anastasia Beverly Hills

  • Friday, 12 July, 2019
    Turkish economy
    Fitch cuts Turkey’s credit rating after sacking of central bank head
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2019
    News in-depthEM Squared
    Fitch warns Africa risks falling back into financial ‘distress’ Premium

    Public debt balloons back to levels seen before massive write-off programme

  • Friday, 7 June, 2019
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Fitch downgrades Deutsche Bank in latest blow for German lender
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