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Fitch Ratings has proposed a new rating scale designed to "provide greater transparency into the interplay between default risk and loss given default than heretofore has been available to the market."
Fitch said the new methodology would be global in scope, include a benchmark measure of default probability (the issuer default rating), and a new recovery rating scale.
The recovery rating scale would focus on lower rated, speculative grade securities, Fitch said. The addition of more information on recovery prospects, in conjunction with the issuer default rating, recognizes the market's need for bifurcated information on the two main elements of credit risk, Fitch said.
Fitch's enhanced methodology is being introduced to the market as an "exposure draft" to solicit feedback from investors, issuers, and other market participants during a one-month comment period.
The proposed reco-very scale ranks securities on a scale of R1 ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Fitch Proposes New Default And Recovery Rating Scale.(Brief Article)