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Sovereign & Supranational

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In alphabetical order:

  • Balanced-Score Card (BSC)[1]Frenkel, Karmann and Scholtens (2004). Sovereign Risk and Financial Crises. Springer. ISBN 978-3540222484., p. 10 (not active)
  • Country Risk[2]Frenkel, Karmann and Scholtens (2004). Sovereign Risk and Financial Crises. Springer. ISBN 978-3540222484., p. 10 (not active)
  • Ipsative Approach (Countries) (not active)
  • Poll (Countries)[3]The poll rating method is not used any more on Wikirating – it was active between Oct. 2011 and Apr. 2012.
  • Public Sector Credit Framework (PSCF)[4]Wikipedia – Public Sector Credit Framework. Retrieved 2013-09-21.
  • Resilience (Countries)[5]J. Marczyk, “A New Theory of Risk and Rating” – ASIN B004CLYICO
  • Secondary Market Analysis[6]Frenkel, Karmann and Scholtens (2004). Sovereign Risk and Financial Crises. Springer. ISBN 978-3540222484., p. 10 (not active)
  • Sovereign Wikirating Index (SWI)

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Companies

Rating methods

In alphabetical order:

  • Corporation Average Index (CAI)
  • Corporation Wikirating Index (CWI) (not active)
  • Intellectual Capital (IC) (not active)
  • Kelly Criterion[7]White paper, original source: Crediteye’s thoughts (not active)
  • Option Pricing[8]Rosenberger (2003). Risk-adjusted Lending Conditions. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ISBN 0-470-84752-2. (not active)
  • Poll (Companies)[9]The poll rating method is not used any more on Wikirating – it was active between Oct. 2011 and Apr. 2012.
  • Resilience (Companies)

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Cryptoassets

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Structured Finance

There are several main types of structured finance instruments[11]See Wikipedia – Structured finance:

Asset-backed securities (ABS)

  • Asset-backed securities are bonds or notes based on pools of assets or collateralized by the cash flows from a specific pool of underlying assets.[12]See Wikipedia – Asset-backed securities

 

Mortgage-backed securities (MBS)

  • Mortgage-backed securities are asset-backed securities, the cash flows from which are backed by the principal and interest payments of a set of mortgage loans.[13]See Wikipedia – Mortgage-backed securities
    • Residential mortgage-backed securities deal with residential homes, usually single family.
    • Commercial mortgage-backed securities are for commercial real estate, such as malls or office complexes.
    • Collateralized mortgage obligations are securitizations of mortgage-backed securities.[14]See Wikipedia – Collateralized mortgage obligations

 

Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)

  • Collateralized debt obligations consolidate a group of fixed-income assets, such as high-yield debt or asset-backed securities, into a pool, which is then divided into various tranches.[15]See Wikipedia – Collateralized debt obligations
    • Collateralized bond obligations (CBOs) are collaterized debt obligations backed primarily by corporate bonds.[16]See Wikipedia – Collateralized bond obligations
    • Collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) are collaterized debt obligations backed primarily by leveraged bank loans.[17]See Wikipedia – Collateralized loan obligations
    • Commercial real estate collateralized debt obligations are collaterized debt obligations backed primarily by commercial real estate loans and bonds.[18]See Wikipedia – Commercial real estate collateralized debt obligations

 

Other structured products

  • Credit derivatives are contracts to transfer the risk of the total return on a credit asset falling below an agreed level, without transfer of the underlying asset.[19]See Wikipedia – Credit derivatives
  • Collateralized fund obligations (CFOs) are securitizations of private equity and hedge fund assets.[20]See Wikipedia – Collateralized fund obligations
  • Partial guaranteed structures
  • Future flow transactions
  • Loan sell offs

Rating Agencies which offer ‘Structured Finance’ services

(Non-exhaustive) list of credit rating agencies, which offer ‘Structured Finance’ services (in alphabetical order):

Credit Rating Agencies

Wikirating regulary updates the list of credit and crypto rating agencies (accredited/not accredited by SEC, ESMA, FCA, FINMA and other regulators) in the world.

Please contact us if you know any further credit/crypto rating agency/organisation/project which are missing in these lists.

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Data Analytics

This area is intended to be the container for all used data/documents (checked and approved under the aspect of reliability) on Wikirating. It concerns textual reports, direct (raw) data, as well as derived (computed) data files in a common and convenient format for computing.

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