Scope has published the annual update of its General Project Finance Rating Methodology. The changes are mainly editorial and aimed at providing further clarity and ensuring consistency with Scope’s other rating methodologies and rating definitions.

A sustained period of higher interest rates will present a challenge for many borrowers worldwide, as economies adapt to a new era of comparatively tight monetary policy amid a recovery in growth and enduring inflation.

Safety-related production problems at Boeing Co. are delaying the normalisation of the aviation finance sector, partly to the benefit of aircraft-leasing companies, as post-pandemic demand for air travel grows faster than the supply of aircraft.

Long-term stable cashflows promised by infrastructure projects are increasingly attracting institutional investors, but not all projects are created equal. Fibre networks, one of the newest infrastructure asset classes in Europe, are a case in point.

Scope incorporates the Aircraft Non-payment Insurance Methodology into its Aviation Finance Rating Methodology and subsequently withdraws the Aircraft Non-payment Insurance Methodology.

Scope incorporates the Aircraft Non-payment Insurance Methodology into its Aviation Finance Rating Methodology and subsequently withdraws the Aircraft Non-payment Insurance Methodology.

Existing ratings are not impacted.

Europe’s grid operators need regulated returns to improve as capex burden rises; hedging promises electricity producer gains, but consumer pain; IOCs’ understandable renewables caution; a new nuclear era?

Existing ratings are not impacted

Scope Ratings today proposes an update to its Aviation Finance Rating Methodology and calls for comments. The core principles of the rating approach remain unchanged and the proposed methodology update would have no impact on existing ratings.