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Credit Rating Agencies

Dr Daniel Cash specialises in the study of Credit Rating Agencies and ESG Rating Agencies. He has authored eight books and more than thirty articles on the subjects. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the UN University Center for Policy Research. He was a Fulbright Scholar at New York University’s Stern Business School in 2022-23 and completed his PhD at Durham University in 2016. He is a Reader of Law (Associate Professor) at Aston University in the UK and has held visiting positions at various Universities and institutions around the world.

ESG Rating Agencies

Recent Engagement

  • Speaker at the inaugural Hamburg Sustainability Conference

  • UN University Paper 'Rating the Globe' launched in New York

  • Panellist at the Operationalisation Meeting of the African Credit Rating Agency in Lusaka, Zambia for the African Union

  • Speaker at the Intergovernmental Meeting of Experts, United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

  • Launch of Background Paper at UNU-WIDER Helsinki

IN THE NEWS

  • Featured in - ESG Ratings: Whose Interests Do They Serve?

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  • Featured in - Credit downgrade buffer proposed for poor nations seeking debt help - study

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  • Featured in - EU overhaul of ESG ratings industry has further to run

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  • Featured in - Climate investing: Are ESG ratings holding back green growth?

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  • Featured in - Surprise as S&P drop ESG scores from credit ratings

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  • Featured in - Report calls for EU authorities to punish "greenwashing" offenders

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  • Featured in - Credit Rating Committee Plays Vital but Overlooked Role in Climate Risk Integration

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  • Featured in - Sustainability: How China is clamping down on exaggerated green claims in sectors from manufacturing to finance

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  • Featured in - Ambition "remains high" on EU corporate sustainability disclosures, says EU's Spolc

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  • Featured in - ESG Heavyweights table "punitive" anti-greenwashing measures

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  • Featured in - Pound rises as Liz Truss Resigns

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  • Featured in - UK seen timing Ratings Regulation with EU

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  • Co-wrote: Making Africa’s Credit Ratings More Objective

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  • Featured in - How Africa's 'ticket' to prosperity fueled a debt bomb

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  • Featured in - Second Party Opinions: A Greenwash Safeguard or Just For Show?

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  • Featured in - How to tackle Africa's rising debt burden, by experts

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  • Featured in - Fitch suggests use of climate KPI for sovereign credit assessments

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  • Featured in - The Credit Rating Impasse: Hard Limits on Sovereign Access to Capital

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  • Authored - Rating agencies don’t treat the Global South fairly: changes South Africa should champion in G20 hot seat

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Regulation and the Global Financial Crisis: Impact, Regulatory Responses, and Beyond
A Modern Credit Rating Agency: The Story of Moody's
Sustainability Rating Agencies vs Credit Rating Agencies: The Battle to Serve the Mainstream Investor
Investor Stewardship and the UK Stewardship Code: The Role of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance
ESG Rating Agencies and Financial Regulation: A Signalling Theory Approach
The Role of Credit Rating Agencies in Responsible Finance
Regulation and the Credit Rating Agencies: Restraining Ancillary Services
Sovereign Debt Sustainability: Multilateral Debt Treatment and the Credit Rating Impasse