{"id":13425,"date":"2026-05-18T16:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/?p=13425"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:06:28","slug":"moodys-ratings-best-credit-rating-agency-latam-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/professional-services\/2026\/moodys-ratings-best-credit-rating-agency-latam-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Moody&#8217;s Ratings: Best Credit Rating Agency LATAM 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12342\" src=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Moodys-jpg.webp\" alt=\"Moodys\" width=\"500\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Moodys-jpg.webp 500w, https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Moodys-300x100.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Moody&#8217;s Ratings is recognized for its disciplined analytical approach and strong regional expertise at a time when Latin American issuers are navigating tighter liquidity conditions, higher refinancing risk and greater scrutiny of governance and climate exposure. The judging panel highlighted the firm\u2019s consistent analytical framework across sovereign, sub sovereign, and financial institution ratings, combined with ongoing market engagement designed to support transparency and informed credit assessment for issuers and investors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThis recognition also reflects Moody\u2019s Corporation\u2019s publicly reported financial performance, with full year 2025 revenue of $7.7 billion, representing 9 percent year on year growth. Moody\u2019s Investors Service (the legal entity operating under the Moody\u2019s Ratings brand) reported revenue of $4.1 billion for the same period, also up 9 percent year on year, reflecting continued demand for independent, high quality credit analysis. In the fourth quarter of 2025, Moody\u2019s Investors Service revenue increased by 17 percent to $946 million, supporting continued investment in analytical resources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIn Latin America, Moody\u2019s Ratings\u2019 analytical work includes public sovereign rating actions, such as the affirmation of Chile\u2019s A2 rating with a stable outlook in 2025, supported by transparent analysis of institutional and fiscal factors.The panel also values the breadth of sustainable finance assurance delivered in the region, including Second Party Opinions cited for the Government of Costa Rica, the Province of C\u00f3rdoba and BancoEstado, alongside supplementary opinions supporting regional frameworks, strengthening credibility for labelled instruments. Governance discipline, methodological consistency and measured communication were cited as distinguishing features of Moody&#8217;s Ratings in a competitive market. The Capital Finance International (CFI.co) Judging Panel congratulates Moody&#8217;s Ratings on winning the Best Credit Rating Agency 2026 Award (LATAM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moody&#8217;s Ratings is recognized for its disciplined analytical approach and strong regional expertise at a time when Latin American issuers are navigating tighter liquidity conditions, higher refinancing risk and greater<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[34,7,15,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consultancies","category-latin-america","category-professional-services","category-x-latin-america"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.6 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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