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Credit Market Insight at Your Fingertips

RatingsDirect^®, the real-time, Web-based source for Standard & Poor's global credit ratings, research, and risk analysis.

Benefits

Web-based access to nearly 8 million ratings and 240,000 research articles.

Deep, authoritative insight into the sectors and regions you follow.

Extensive asset coverage, including CDOs and other structured financial products.

Consistent credit opinions to help you benchmark your analysis.

Features

RatingsDirect provides coverage by specific geographic regions and sectors, including Corporations, Financial Institutions, Insurance, International Public Finance, Sovereigns, Utilities, U.S. Public Finance, and Structured Finance with more than 16 years of ratings history.

To help you compare peers, understand the characteristics of an industry, or analyze a particular sector and its key trends, RatingsDirect offers:

Ratings Analyses

Industry Report Cards

Key Credit Factors

Peer Comparisons

Timely and Topical Commentaries

Credit FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions).

RatingsDirect enables you to easily track the issues and issuers you follow by creating portfolios, setting email alerts, searching by keyword or viewing real-time ratings and research on the specific sectors you track.

With RatingsDirect, support is available 24 hours a day during the global business week by a team of Standard & Poor's Product Support Specialists.

Each day, financial professionals around the world rely on RatingsDirect, for must-have ratings and research from Standard & Poor's.