David Bergmann
Managing Director
Head of Structured Finance
Fon: +39 02947 58940
E-mail: d.bergman @ scoperatings.com
Michael John MacKenzie
Managing Director
Head of Structured Finance Business
Development
Fon: +49 (0)30 27891-130
E-mail: m.mackenzie @ scopegroup.com
Scope Ratings AG is the leading European credit rating agency, offering clients an opinion-driven, forward-looking and non-mechanistic credit risk analysis and contributing to greater diversity of opinions for institutional investors. Scope Ratings provides ratings of financial institutions, corporates, structured finance, covered bonds, project finance and public finance. Scope Ratings is an ESMA-accredited rating agency operating in the European Union with European Credit Assessment Institution (ECAI) status. It is part of the Scope Group, with headquarters in Berlin and offices in Frankfurt, London, Paris, Madrid and Milan.
Scope offers a European alternative to the existing credit agencies by applying rating methodologies that are designed for and from Europe. Our structured finance and covered bond ratings capture the underlying factors that explain why transactions in Europe exhibit a markedly better credit performance than those in the US.
Scope's key analytical difference lies in its customised approach and regional perspective. Scope favours opinion-driven analysis, as opposed to merely applying rigid global criteria and industrialised rating approaches.
Our approach to structured finance and covered bond ratings results in high credit differentiation because:
Scope currently rates and monitors issuances of over EUR 100bn of European structured finance debt securities and over approx EUR 500bn of covered bonds – and Scope's rating coverage continues to increase rapidly. Rated transactions include covered bonds, SME and auto ABS, CMBS, RMBS as well as the securitisations of leases, trade receivables and alternative investment funds. Scope also analyses a number of European infrastructure and project finance transactions.