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Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a part of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is the world's
foremost provider of credit ratings. With offices in 24 countries, Standard & Poor's is an
important part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for 150
years in providing investors with information and independent benchmarks for their
investment and financial decisions.
We maintain offices in the financial centres of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, (EMEA)
such as London, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Moscow, Madrid, and Stockholm. Our offices in Tel
Aviv, Dubai, Istanbul, and Johannesburg are also within this network. Overall, we are the
largest international rating agency in Europe.
Since 1992, Standard & Poor’s has been operating in Frankfurt and celebrates its 20th
anniversary this year. The Frankfurt office offers all services in the area of credit ratings for
clients in the German-speaking countries as well as various countries in EMEA. The office
has expanded over the years, with our staff increasing to about 120, about half of them
analysts. In addition to assigning credit ratings to corporates, banks, insurance companies,
and sovereigns, we assess public entities such as municipalities and federal states. We also
rate structured finance transactions like asset-backed securities and collateralized debt
obligations.
In Germany, Corporate Ratings is our largest business segment, and 20 analysts fluent in
German are currently attached to the Frankfurt office. Having such a strong analytical base
enables us to cover several industry sectors, such as Capital Goods, Automotive Suppliers
and Producers, Logistics and Transport, Retail, Consumer Goods, Pharmaceuticals, Media
and Leisure, Chemicals, Technology, and Utilities.
Standard & Poor’s puts a lot of emphasis on transparency and communication. We offer
comprehensive information about our criteria and publish rating reports, industry research,
and commentaries on market and economic developments on various platforms, such as our
homepage and our subscriber Web site Global Credit Portal. We also offer video content via
www.creditmatters.com.
Dialogue with issuers, investors, intermediaries, and the media is an important part of our
daily work, therefore we actively support easy access to our analysts. This puts us in a
position to fulfil the demands of a modern and integrated financial services company and
provide additional value for our clients and the market. For more information, visit our
homepage http://www.standardandpoors.com.