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  • Housing ladder? What about those who can’t get on the credit ladder

    Opinion

    There are plenty of column inches dedicated to getting more Brits on the housing ladder, but what about the credit ladder, asks Jono Gillespie.

  • Barcelona credit rating rises from stable to positive

    Sport Business

    Barcelona today boasted of an upgrade in their credit rating, with the LaLiga champions seeing their status move from “stable” to “positive”. An assessment from agency Morningstar DBRS has upgraded the Catalan club’s credit rating despite Barcelona facing recent financial difficulties, in which they were fined over £400,000 for breaching Uefa rules in 2023. The [...]

    Barcelona today boasted of an upgrade in their credit rating, with the LaLiga champions seeing their status move from “stable” to “positive”.
  • Moody’s upgrades UK banking outlook as lenders weather falling interest rates

    Banking

    Credit rating agency Moody's has upgraded its outlook for the UK banking system to "stable" from "negative", expecting lenders' balance sheets to stay resilient to falling interest rates.

    In August, policymakers lowered UK interest rates for the first time since March 2020.
  • Thames Water handed more special measures from Ofwat after credit rating downgrade

    August 7, 2024

    Thames Water will be made to appoint an independent monitor and develop a “suitable” turnaround plan as part of a raft of new measures from the regulator after the its credit rating was downgraded. Ofwat said that the recent decisions from Moody’s and S&P – two of the world’s largest credit ratings agencies – to [...]

  • Moody’s slaps Thames Water’s debt with ‘junk’ rating

    July 24, 2024

    Moody’s Ratings has lowered Thames Water’s highest tranche of debt to 'junk' in another blow to the struggling water firm.

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