credit rating agencies – Benefits Canada.com https://www.benefitscanada.com Canada's most influential pension and benefits publication for decision-makers Fri, 03 May 2024 21:03:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 Fitch Ratings introduces new scoring system on ESG and credit ratings  https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/fitch-ratings-esg%ef%bb%bf%ef%bb%bf%ef%bb%bf%ef%bb%bf/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/fitch-ratings-esg%ef%bb%bf%ef%bb%bf%ef%bb%bf%ef%bb%bf/#respond Wed, 09 Jan 2019 07:10:02 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/fitch-ratings-esg%ef%bb%bf%ef%bb%bf%ef%bb%bf%ef%bb%bf/ Fitch Ratings Inc. is launching a new scoring system to show how environmental, social and governance factors affect individual credit rating decisions. Fitch is rolling the ESG relevance scores out across all asset classes, starting with non-financial corporate ratings, followed by banks, non-bank financial institutions, insurance, sovereigns, public finance, global infrastructure and structured finance. According to […]

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