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      Financing fibre: France’s lead over Austria, Germany and Italy points to hidden project risks

      22/3/2024 Research EN

      Financing fibre: France’s lead over Austria, Germany and Italy points to hidden project risks

      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 withdraws its Aircraft Non-payment Insurance Methodology

      28/2/2024 Research EN

      Scope withdraws its 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.

      Scope updates its Aviation Finance Rating Methodology

      28/2/2024 Research EN

      Scope updates its Aviation Finance Rating Methodology

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

      Scope updates its Aviation Finance Rating Methodology

      15/9/2023 Research EN

      Scope updates its Aviation Finance Rating Methodology

      Existing ratings are not impacted.

      Energy Insight Europe – July 2023

      20/7/2023 Research EN

      Energy Insight Europe – July 2023

      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?

      Scope updates its Counterparty Risk Methodology

      13/7/2023 Research EN

      Scope updates its Counterparty Risk Methodology

      Existing ratings are not impacted

      Scope proposes updates to its aviation finance rating methodology and calls for comments

      5/7/2023 Research EN

      Scope proposes updates to its aviation finance rating methodology and calls for comments

      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.

      Scope updates its General Project Finance Rating Methodology

      16/11/2022 Research EN

      Scope updates its General Project Finance Rating Methodology

      The methodology update integrates our legal risks considerations and provides further clarifications. No rating impact.

      Scope Group research - reader survey

      7/9/2022 Research EN

      Scope Group research - reader survey

      At Scope Group, reader feedback is important to us.

      Scope Ratings updates its Rating Definitions

      28/7/2022 Research EN

      Scope Ratings updates its Rating Definitions

      Scope Ratings updates its Rating Definitions to make a correction in its long-term vs short-term Credit Rating correspondence table. This does not impact any Credit Rating.