ARC Ratings
ARC Ratings is an international credit rating agency with over 35 years of experience, providing independent, forward-looking credit opinions across structured finance, private credit and corporate markets.
Registered with ESMA and the FCA as an External Credit Assessment Institution (ECAI), ARC’s ratings are eligible for use within regulatory capital frameworks, supporting capital efficiency and risk-weight optimisation for issuers and investors.
ARC differentiates itself through a transaction-by-transaction analytical approach, with strength in complex and esoteric asset classes including private credit, fund finance, equity release mortgages, NPLs, RPLs and structured products. Its methodologies are transparent, consistently applied, and grounded in deep sector expertise.
Beyond Europe, ARC holds a Type 10 credit rating licence from the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong, supporting its international footprint.
ARC Risk Group also includes ARC Analytics, a data and analytics platform providing cashflow modelling, stress testing and structured finance data solutions, alongside strategic investments in Concept ABS, the primary ABS market data in the UK, Europe and Australia and ARC Comply, the high-performance financial crime compliance platform.
Registered with ESMA and the FCA as an External Credit Assessment Institution (ECAI), ARC’s ratings are eligible for use within regulatory capital frameworks, supporting capital efficiency and risk-weight optimisation for issuers and investors.
ARC differentiates itself through a transaction-by-transaction analytical approach, with strength in complex and esoteric asset classes including private credit, fund finance, equity release mortgages, NPLs, RPLs and structured products. Its methodologies are transparent, consistently applied, and grounded in deep sector expertise.
Beyond Europe, ARC holds a Type 10 credit rating licence from the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong, supporting its international footprint.
ARC Risk Group also includes ARC Analytics, a data and analytics platform providing cashflow modelling, stress testing and structured finance data solutions, alongside strategic investments in Concept ABS, the primary ABS market data in the UK, Europe and Australia and ARC Comply, the high-performance financial crime compliance platform.