Supporting the Establishment of a Caribbean Credit Rating Service

implementation

The objectives are: i) facilitate access of private sector firms to domestic and cross border issuance of notes and bonds and lower their cost of funds; ii) provide investors with high quality information to compare debt instruments in the Caribbean region; iii) enable the capital markets in the region to become deeper and more liquid as more debt instruments are issued; iv) address many of the priorities listed in the New Framework of Cooperation within the Caribbean Community such as greater regional integration of capital markets and more intra-regional investment.