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Basically, a credit rating agency (CRA) is a company that allocates credit ratings for issuers of certain kinds of debt requirements and the debt instruments themselves. Credit rating agencies works as an assessment of financial service firms which appraise the ability of a business or person to pay back a loan. These agencies play an important role in the professional functioning of the general and global fixed income markets. The agencies also suggest an independent monetary investigation about credit. The three common largest credit rating agencies are Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s investor service, and Fitch ratings. These agencies differ a lot in their size, focus and methodologies.

Credit ratings are used for various purposes by the issuers, lenders, fixed-income investors, investment banks, broker-dealers, and government regulators. Credit rating agencies increase the range of investment options for the investors by providing them free, easy-to-use dimensions of comparative credit risk. Usually, issuers also use these agencies for free confirmation of their own credit-values. Moreover, broker-dealers and investment banks also use these agencies for calculating their own risk assortments. These agencies are employing more accounting experts growing more interaction with free examiners. These agencies update their rating yearly and provide a strong idea to sustain the consistency in the credit ratings.

There are three credit rating agencies in the United States also such as Experian, Equifax and transition. These agencies evaluate their own FICO (Fair Isaac Credit Rating Score) scores that exit by special trademark names and different versions. Each version then follows detail independently for generating a credit report. These reports include full customer details and financial results. Scoring good credit from these agencies will allow people to succeed for lower-cost mortgages. The activities of these agencies are open publically and all detailed information on rating result is easily available on the Internet.