Special Meeting on Credit Ratings (Panel 2, 3 and closing session) - Economic and Social Council, 14th meeting, 2026 session.
The Sevilla Commitment, adopted at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), mandates the establishment of a recurring Special Meeting of ECOSOC on credit ratings for dialogue among Member States, credit rating agencies, regulators, standard setters, long-term investors and public institutions publishing independent debt sustainability analysis. Panel 2: Ratings and assessments methodologies and time horizons Panel 3: Boosting the capacity of developing countries to engage with ratings and assessments Closing session The meeting will include updates on the Secretary General's efforts to engage with credit rating agencies, discussion on the use of credit assessments, exchanges on good practices for regulation of credit rating agencies and sharing of perspectives on credit assessment methodologies. The first Special Meeting in 2026 will focus on three themes: (1) Credit ratings and the cost of capital; (2) Ratings and assessments methodologies and time...
