Master 2024/2025

Ratings

Type: Elective course (Financial Analyst)

Area of studies: Finance and Credit

Delivered by: HSE Banking Institute

Where: HSE Banking Institute

When: 2 year, 2 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Master’s programme: Financial Analyst

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Credit ratings play a crucial role in the decision-making on investment and manage-ment of financial institutions around the world. This course is focused mostly on na-tional and international rating agencies, rating modeling, and scales and processes. A special attention is paid to methodological differences among rating agencies and quantitative techniques of rating scales, as well as government regulatory practices in banking and finance. In addition, this course provides overviews how credit ratings are assigned and used in financial institutions. Finally, it covers issues of using different types of credit ratings, simultaneously.