Issuer Rating Reports
Three weeks after the RAC is published and no more than 12 months old
What are the aging and timeliness deadlines outlined by the Content Production Plan?
Once in a LTM period
What is the CPP mandated cadence for Relative Credit Analysis/Peer Comparison reports?
Published annually with a mid-year update as warranted
What is the CPP mandated timing for sector outlook reports?
A short-form comment that is a maximum of 300 words
What is a NRAC that accompanies a special report?
Promo Corporates US, Promo Corporates LATAM, Promo Corporates Global, etc.
What are the email addresses to notify IDT when high profile or other topical special reports are published?
Operational staff that expedites rating report draft using committee package content and exhibit files
What is the Middle Office Support Team (MOST)?
Issuers with a published Navigator
What are the issuers to be included in a Relative Credit Analysis/Peer Comparison report?
2024 through 2026
What are the forecast years included in annual outlook reports?
"Free-to-air" thematic or topical credit comment
What is a Fitch Wire?
Types of CPP content for which individual issuers are tagged during PW submission
What is for RCA and Outlook special reports?
Intro paragraph, key rating drivers, derivation summary, rating sensitivities, ESG considerations and key assumptions
Key Takeaways box on front page of RCA report
What is the front page area to include bullets highlighting issuers that are outliers in terms of Navigator factors or expected performance and credit trends?
Published to highlight deteriorating or improving outlooks or if outlooks changed mid-year
What is a Fitch Wire?
Issuer-specific comment with a maximum of 600 words
What is a NRAC?
Special report with a dedicated template for discussing recent or frequently investor inquiries
What are What Investor Want to Know Reports?
Mandatory CPP content listed as Related Research on all rating reports.
What is the Global Corporates Macro and Sector Forecasts data file?
Issuers that must be excluded from RCA report tables unless credit statistics are omitted
What are private, publicly-rated issuers with private financials and credit opinions?
Four pages including appendices or 1-2 pages per country or sub-sector plus appendices
What is the maximum length of regional, multi-sector compendium and global outlook reports?
2-4 page subscriber-based special report with charts discussing Fitch's opinion on a major credit theme
What is a Fitch Wire+ special report?
Quarterly data file containing key Fitch assumptions and sector-level aggregate forecasts
What is the Global Corporates Macro and Sector Forecasts (GxO) data file?
Content published along with rating report for publicly-rated issuers w/public financials and IDRs of B+ or below
What is the Recovery Tool?
A catch all sector RCA report or inclusion in RCA reports tables and sections that do not discuss the Navigator.
What are approaches to include issuers on the generic Navigator in a RCA report?
Mandatory table in corporate team's outlook reports that is updated quarterly in the GxO
What is the KPI assumption table?
Expresses the most credit-relevant opinion and does not state the obvious
What are NRAC and FW headlines?
Internal use case for Relative Credit Analysis reports and Global Corporates Macro and Sector Forecasts data
What is as attachments for Base Committee Packages?