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Article 3 Rating types

Credit rating agencies shall, when reporting credit ratings or rating outlooks, classify them as one of the following types of ratings:

  1. (a)

    corporate ratings;

  2. (b)

    structured finance ratings;

  3. (c)

    sovereign and public finance ratings;

  4. (d)

    other financial instruments.