TY - BOOK TI - Handbook on international best practices in credit rating SN - 9789715617543 U1 - 338.950 PY - 2008/// CY - Philippines PB - Asian Development Bank KW - Credit ratings N1 - Introduction -- Summary of the main recommendations -- Essential Best practices -- Pre-rating requirements -- Rating definitions and recognition of default -- Policies and processes for ratings -- Confidentiality requirements -- Independence and avoidance of conflicts of interest -- Policies for private, unsolicited, and unaccepted ratings -- General code of conduct -- Compliance with policies and process -- Conducting outreach -- Relations with regulator and other DCRAs -- Desirable best practices -- Implementation schedule for domestic credit rating agencies ER -