List of registered or certified credit rating agencies
ESMA publishes the list of credit rating agencies registered or certified under the Credit Rating Agencies Regulation. ESMA is the direct supervisor of credit rating agencies in the European Union, so the registration decisions behind this list are its own rather than compiled from national authorities.
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Open The list is published as a table on the page itself and was retrieved anonymously with no credential and no fee, showing each agency’s name, country of residence, status, effective date and legal entity identifier. No search URL is published because the page presents the whole list rather than a query interface.
Assessment
Strengths
ESMA supervises credit rating agencies directly, so this list reflects its own registration decisions rather than a compilation of national ones.
The list is published under a statutory duty and states that it is updated within five working days of a registration or certification decision.
Each entry carries a legal entity identifier, which makes an agency identifiable across other financial datasets without name matching.
Limitations
It covers credit rating agencies only. It is not a general register of financial firms, and other ESMA registers rest on entirely different legal bases.
The page notes that the Commission republishes the list in the Official Journal within thirty days, so the two can differ for a period.
Registration records that an agency meets regulatory requirements. It is not an opinion on its ratings or its conduct.
Submission guidance
Records are created through incorporation, registration, filing, or statutory processes.
Submission difficulty
Unknown
Typical listing quality
High
Typical approval time
Unknown
Review process
Unknown
Best for
Confirming that a credit rating agency is registered or certified to issue ratings usable for regulatory purposes in the EU.
Reading an agency’s registration status, effective date and legal entity identifier from the supervisor’s own published list.
Not recommended for
Assessing the quality of an agency’s ratings. The list records regulatory status, not analytical performance.
General company verification, which is a matter for national business registers.
Preparation checklist
No checklist recorded yet.
Common mistakes
No common mistakes recorded yet.
Establishing required submission assets requires submitting a listing and observing the result. That has not been done for any directory in this dataset, so it is not published rather than estimated.
What this directory accepts
Startups
Unknown
SaaS products
Unknown
Enterprises
Yes
Agencies
Unknown
Freelancers
Unknown
Local businesses
Unknown
Developer tools
Unknown
Open-source projects
Unknown
Non-profits
Unknown
AI products
Unknown
Mobile apps
Unknown
Ecommerce stores
Unknown
Recommended industries
Credit rating agencies operating in the European Union
How the PetroHrys Score was reached
Editorial trust 15%
10 / 10How far the entries a directory publishes can be relied on as accurate.
Business usefulness 15%
8 / 10How much practical use a listing there is to the business being listed.
Verification quality 12%
10 / 10How thoroughly the directory establishes that an entry is genuine before publishing it.
Platform reputation 10%
9 / 10How the platform is regarded in its field. Deliberately not a popularity, traffic or recognition measure.
Spam resistance 10%
10 / 10How well the directory keeps low-quality and promotional entries out.
Industry importance 10%
8 / 10How central the directory is to its sector, independently of how useful one listing is.
Long-term stability 10%
9 / 10How likely the directory is to still exist, and to still carry the entry, years from now.
Submission quality 8%
5 / 10What the submission process asks for and how workable it is for the business submitting.
Transparency 5%
10 / 10How openly the directory states its rules, costs and criteria.
Moderation quality 5%
9 / 10How the directory maintains entries after publication.
The PetroHrys Score is a first-party editorial assessment, not a third-party
authority metric. It is the weighted sum of the ten factors above, divided by ten, so the number
on this page is reproducible from the values shown. Each factor is scored from 0 to 10 by a human reviewer and weighted as shown. The definitions describe what was weighed, not a rubric: no threshold or formula maps a directory onto a value, and two reviewers could reach different numbers. The score is reproducible from the factors shown on every record, but it is an editorial judgement, not a measurement.