EIU is no longer registered as a credit rating agency under the UK’s version of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009. It does not issue credit ratings or carry out credit rating activities.
Before April 1st 2025, sovereign ratings issued by The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Financial Risk Service (previously Country Risk Service) were regulated in accordance with The Credit Rating Agencies (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, SI 2019/266.
All outstanding sovereign ratings issued until March 31st 2025 were withdrawn on April 1st 2025.
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s methodology is described in the Financial Risk Service Handbook.
Tabular data for methodology handbooks in reverse chronological order