With this acquisition, Scope Ratings gains additional core competencies in the key area of sovereign credit ratings. FERI EuroRating has established its sovereign credit ratings as constants in the market over many years. As a result of this integration, Scope Ratings will rate the credit quality of 59 sovereigns.

The transfer of the country ratings and its respective announcement do not constitute a deviation of the publication of sovereign ratings from the published sovereign rating calendar as per Article 8a 4. of regulation 462_2013. Scope Ratings’ sovereign rating calendar is available at www.scoperatings.com.

The sovereign credit ratings are available on Scope Ratings’ credit portal available here.