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Rating systems are among the main innovations of the modern banking industry. Developed since the mid-1990s on the basis of a scheme that finds its definition in the working paper of the Basel Committee (BCBS, 1999), it is now possible to define more precisely the hallmarks of credit rating.

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Modina, M. (2015). Credit Rating. In: Credit Rating and Bank-Firm Relationships. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137496225_2

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