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Moody’s
Australian Corporate Finance group rates and publishes opinions on
companies of varying sizes in all industrial and service sectors of the
corporate landscape. We have been rating corporate bonds in Australia since the 1970s, bringing to the
market a combination of local knowledge and global expertise.
Moody’s Corporate
Finance Group is the business unit within the firm’s Global Ratings and
Research Group that serves non-financial corporations - including
industrial, manufacturing, technology, telecom, real estate, oil & gas
and energy companies. Our focus and composition is truly global, with
ratings on more than 14,000 investment grade securities, 4,700 leveraged
finance securities, and 1,900 bank loans.
The Corporate Finance
Group in Australia works closely with other groups
throughout Moody’s, taking advantage of in-depth sector knowledge and
expertise, and leveraging very diverse experiences to gain a complete
understanding of a corporate’s credit profile.
Our corporate rating coverage in Asia Pacific is growing strongly,
reflecting increased investor appetite for corporate paper and growing
issuer awareness of the advantages of tapping capital markets.
We also continue to
introduce new products, such as bank loan ratings and issuer ratings, to
reflect the evolving needs of borrowers, intermediaries and investors.
Project finance is now an established means of financing Australian
utilities companies as well as major infrastructure projects. Moody’s has
built its analytic resources in anticipation of this growth, with sizable
credit hubs in the region’s financial capitals – Australian, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. Experienced, knowledgeable
industry experts staff these offices. Most of our analysts are local
nationals, they are typically multilingual, and in all cases they are fully
integrated with Moody’s global ratings teams.
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