global credit ratings

Global Credit Ratings (GCR) is a leading emerging market focused ratings agency that rates the full spectrum of security classes, including Corporates, Banks, Insurance companies, Local Authorities, Asset Management & Funds, and Structured Finance transactions. GCRs African regional headquarters are based in Johannesburg, with its main SADC, West and East African regional offices established in Harare, Lagos and Nairobi respectively. GCR rates the full spectrum of security classes and its core competitive advantage is based on the principal of analytical excellence. In this regards, it is important to appreciate the fact that emerging markets are fundamentally different to the developed markets in the US and Western Europe, which calls for a deeper appreciation of the unique characteristics of these markets. GCR accords both local currency National Scale ratings (which are typically tiered against an assumed best possible rating of AAA and enable appropriate differentiation of credit quality within each country), as well as International Scale ratings (which assess the capacity to meet commitments using a globally applicable scale, and as such are directly comparable across all countries).