20 February 2024
The EIU has published its Transparency Report for the 2023 calendar year.
8 February 2024
The EIU has published its Transparency Reports for the 2021 and 2022 calendar years.
18 December 2023
The EIU has published its Country Risk Service rating schedule for 2024 to include regulated reports only. A schedule of all rating reports, regardless of their regulatory status, is available here.
17 April 2023
We have identified and corrected an error in our data tool and data feeds related to the sovereign rating for Iraq. The rating as of March 2023 was previously incorrectly given as B, but has now been amended to CCC, consistent with the rating report published on March 10th, which was correct and is unchanged. We apologise for any confusion or inconvenience this may have caused.
15 March 2023
On 1 January 2023 Croatia adopted the euro and became the 20th member of the euro area. As a consequence, Country Risk ratings for Croatia will be based on the euro area variant of the Country Risk model, starting with the rating review scheduled on April 7th 2023. Please direct any queries or feedback to [email protected].
27 January 2023
The EIU has published its Country Risk Service rating schedule for 2023 to include regulated reports only. A schedule of all rating reports, regardless of their regulatory status, is available here.
20 December 2021
Tables in the CRS report for Yemen published on November 12th 2021 contained incorrect sovereign and currency risk ratings. These errors were identified on December 15th 2021, and a corrected report was published on December 17th 2021. There were no errors in the underlying risk scores, model or analysis. We apologise for any confusion or inconvenience this may have caused.
20 July 2021
The EIU has published its Transparency Report for the 2020 calendar year. It has also updated its description of ancillary services to reflect recent changes in its product offerings.
21 December 2020
The EIU has updated these pages to reflect the change in the regulatory status of the Country Risk Service as of December 31st 2020. Changes have been made to the pages on regulatory affairs, rating publication, methodologies and procedures, as well as to the Country Risk Service Handbook.
The EIU has published its Country Risk Service rating schedule for 2021 to include regulated reports only. A schedule of all rating reports, regardless of their regulatory status, is available here.
15 September 2020
The EIU has updated the Country Risk Service Handbook, which describes the rating methodology. The new edition features an updated layout, clarification of aspects of the rating methodology, and an updated assessment of model performance. The new Handbook can be downloaded here.
27 December 2019
The EIU has published its Country Risk Service rating schedule for 2020 to include regulated reports only. A schedule of all rating reports, regardless of their regulatory status, is available here.
19 December 2018
Publication schedule 2019 [Discontinued. Available upon request]: The Country Risk Service rating schedule listed the dates in 2019 when new sovereign ratings and accompanying reports would be published, and the date when a country was first rated.
18 December 2017
Publication schedule 2018 [Discontinued. Available upon request]: The Country Risk Service rating schedule listed the dates in 2018 when new sovereign ratings and accompanying reports would be published, and the date when a country was first rated.
31 October 2017
Updated publication schedule 2017 [Discontinued. Available upon request]: The Country Risk Service rating schedule listed the dates in 2017 when new sovereign ratings and accompanying reports would be published, and the date when a country was first rated.
28 December 2016
Publication schedule 2017 [Discontinued. Available upon request]: The Country Risk Service rating schedule listed the dates in 2017 when new sovereign ratings and accompanying reports would be published, and the date when a country was first rated.
17 June 2016
The EIU has published its Transparency Report for financial year 2015-16, available here.
The EIU has updated its disclosure on Compensation Policy
The EIU has updated its disclosure on Conflicts of Interest.
The EIU has updated its disclosure on Rated entities and related third parties that subscribe to ancillary services.
The EIU has updated its disclosure on methodologies and procedures.
The EIU has updated its disclosure on the publication of CRS reports and ratings.
2 June 2016
The EIU has updated its disclosure on Ancillary Services.
29 December 2015
Publication schedule 2016 [Discontinued. Available upon request]: The Country Risk Service rating schedule listed the dates in 2016 when new sovereign ratings and accompanying reports would be published, and the date when a country was first rated.
23 December 2014
Publication schedule 2015 [Discontinued. Available upon request]: The Country Risk Service rating schedule listed the dates in 2015 when new sovereign ratings and accompanying reports would be published, and the date when a country was first rated.
20 December 2013
Publication schedule 2014 [Discontinued. Available upon request]: The Country Risk Service rating schedule listed the dates in 2014 when new sovereign ratings and accompanying reports would be published, and the date when a country was first rated.
16 December 2013
In accordance with EU Regulation No 462/2013, as published in the Official Journal of the European Union L 146 of 2013, also known as CRA III, additional obligations in relation to sovereign ratings must also be met by a credit rating agency. These will include the following:
In accordance with CRA III regulations, the following additional notifications are also being made:
3 June 2013
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has formally approved the registration of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), based in the United Kingdom, as a credit rating agency (CRA) under Article 16 of the CRA Regulation. The registration takes effect from 3 June 2013.
EIU’s registration as a CRA means that its credit ratings can be used for regulatory purposes under EU legislation.