Fitch Ratings Inc. is launching a new scoring system to show how environmental, social and governance factors affect individual credit rating decisions. Fitch is rolling the ESG relevance scores out across all asset classes, starting with non-financial corporate ratings, followed by banks, non-bank financial institutions, insurance, sovereigns, public finance, global infrastructure and structured finance. According to […]
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