Ratings: modeFinance Will be the First Italian Agency to Rate Banks
TRIESTE, Italy, October 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
As of today, an Italian ratings agency will be able to issue ratings on the international banking system. modeFinance, the first fintech firm in the financial sector to be registered as a ratings agency in Europe, has now been authorised (material changes) by the European Securities and Markets Authority, ESMA, to produce credit ratings on all the commercial banks in the world, of which there are over 25,000 in more than 200 different countries.
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Based in Trieste, modeFinance is the first Italian ratings agency to be allowed to issue ratings on banks.
"In this historic period for international finance", said Valentino Pediroda and Mattia Ciprian, the founders of modeFinance "we have noticed a call for greater transparency and security, to protect investments and M&A deals that particularly involve small banks and finance firms. For our ratings, we use innovative, proprietary technology, 'MORE for Banks', that manages to simplify and summarise in a single element, the rating, the analysis of organisations that are as complex as banks. With this authorisation and our fintech technology we will grow our credit risk web application services further, to give a service that is extraordinarily useful for investment funds, for banks themselves when dealing with the inter-bank lending market, and for firms."
modeFinance was founded in 2009 because of an idea that big data could be applied to financial ratings. Using its own proprietary ratings methodology, MORE (Multi Objective Rating Evaluation), modeFinance can assess the credit risk of companies and banks, by combining balance sheet information with many other variables that can show the stability of the firm in question, such as organisational structure, principal market and management experience.
"Big data", conclude Pediroda and Ciprian "will allow the costs of business intelligence to be further reduced and will make credit ratings accessible even to smaller firms and make them available in sectors and in countries which are known as being less transparent or economically open. Today we can rate 200 million companies in over 200 countries worldwide."
So as to increase the transparency of the "MORE for Banks" method, and in accordance with the guidelines and best practices laid down by the ESMA, modeFinance has created a section on its website (cra.modeFinance.com) for market consultation by stakeholders so as to gather opinions and comments.
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