The Fitch ratings agency has delivered another blow to oil giant BP, cutting its credit rating a full six notches to BBB from AA.
UK banks risk having their credit ratings downgraded because of the poor state of the country's public finances, warns ratings agency Moody's.
A swathe of new RDR exams have left advisers "confused" and "crossing their fingers" their current qualifications will still be valid after 2012.
US rating agencies, Moody's and Standard & Poor's, have come in for heavy criticism from US Senators following an investigation of their role in the financial crisis.
The United States' top credit rating could be at risk should its nascent economic revival not develop into a full-blown recovery, Moody's Investor Service has warned.
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has given Standard Life Assurance Ltd a long-term ‘A' credit rating, and its parent plc a ‘BBB+' rating.