The Path to a Successful Rating for a Real Estate Company A Bavarian real estate company faced an important strategic turning point: after years of steady growth and successful financing through bank loans, the company aimed to broaden its refinancing base. The next logical step was the capital market — specifically, the issuance of

The Path to a Successful Rating A financial institution in Austria faced an important strategic decision: it aimed to obtain an official rating from an international agency — a seal of quality that builds trust and opens the door to capital markets. Yet the path to achieving this goal was anything but straightforward. A

The seminar covers relevant approaches of credit analysis that are useful to incorporate in a financial institution’s own internal rating model. Furthermore,  participants will deepen their expertise about credit risk for global banks and sovereign obligors. Know-how about the rating agencies’ operating techniques will be transformed into practical tips about how internal rating models should

The course indicates the relevant approaches of credit analysis which are useful to incorporate in a financial institution’s own internal rating method. Furthermore, this enables participants to deepen their expertise about credit risk for international banks.  After covering Standard & Poor’s, Fitch and Moody’s methodologies the participants will learn how to identify general trends on each of the entities’ rating factors and

The seminar covers a variety of rating criteria for sovereign and supranational organizations. Using detailed case studies, you will analyze how rating agencies use their own methods and which questions may remain unanswered in published rating reports. Various rating methodologies will be presented to discuss the different inter-related criteria, rating factors and qualitative adjustment