recognized rating agency definition

recognized rating agency means A.M Best Company, Fitch, Moody’s, Standard and Poor’s, and any other agency approved by the Authority;
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recognized rating agency means a credit rating organization recognized by the Commission as such for purposes of these guidelines;
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recognized rating agency means a nationally recognized rating agency or organization, including Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Duff & Phelxx, xxd any other rating agency or organization approved by the Purchasers holding a majority of the principal amount of the Notes.
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Examples of recognized rating agency in a sentence

  • THE CLASS M-2 AND CLASS B CERTIFICATES ARE NOT "MORTGAGE RELATED SECURITIES" FOR PURPOSES OF SMMEA BECAUSE SUCH CERTIFICATES ARE NOT RATED IN ONE OF THE TWO HIGHEST RATING CATEGORIES BY A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED RATING AGENCY.


More Definitions of recognized rating agency

recognized rating agency means S&P, Moody’s or another U.S. nationally recognized or internationally recognized rating agency.
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recognized rating agency means S&P, Xxxxx'x or another U.S. nationally recognized or internationally recognized rating agency.
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recognized rating agency means a credit rating organization recognized by the Commission for the purposes of this Regulation;
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recognized rating agency means any of Standard and Poor's Rating Group, a division of XxXxxx-Xxxx, Inc., Xxxxx'x Investors Services, Inc., and Fitch, Inc., or any of their respective successor organizations.
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recognized rating agency means any one of the following:
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Related to recognized rating agency

  • Rating Agency means only those rating agencies that are engaged from time to time to rate the securities issued in connection with the Securitizations of the Notes.

  • Rating means the operating limits as specified by the component manufacturer.

  • Credit Rating Agency means a nationally recognized credit rating agency that evaluates the financial condition of issuers of debt instruments and then assigns a rating that reflects its assessment of the issuer’s ability to make debt payments.

  • Substitute Rating Agency means a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, selected by the Company (as certified by a resolution of the Company’s board of directors) as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, or both, as the case may be.

  • Rating Agencies means DBRS, Fitch, KBRA, Xxxxx’x, Morningstar and S&P and their respective successors in interest or, if any of such entities shall for any reason no longer perform the functions of a securities rating agency, any other nationally recognized statistical rating agency reasonably designated by any Note Holder to rate the securities issued in connection with the Securitization of the related Note; provided, however, that, at any time during which the Mortgage Loan is an asset of one or more Securitizations, “Rating Agencies” or “Rating Agency” shall mean only those rating agencies that are engaged from time to time to rate the securities issued in connection with the Securitizations of the Notes.

  • Moody’s means Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.

  • Fitch means Fitch Ratings, Inc. or its successor.

  • Moody s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.

  • S&P Rating means, at any time, the rating issued by S&P and then in effect with respect to the Borrower’s senior unsecured long-term public debt securities without third-party credit enhancement (it being understood that if the Borrower does not have any outstanding debt securities of the type described above but has an indicative rating from S&P for debt securities of such type, then such indicative rating shall be used for determining the “S&P Rating”).

  • Investment Grade means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of Moody’s); a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of S&P); and the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company.

  • Sending agency means a party state, officer or employee thereof; a subdivision of a party state, or officer or employee thereof; a court of a party state; a person, corporation, association, charitable agency or other entity which sends, brings, or causes to be sent or brought any child to another party state.