Universal Credit Rating Group (UCRG) () is a credit ratings agency based in Hong Kong. Plans to create UCRG were announced in October 2012,
and it was officially founded in Hong Kong in June 2013,
as a partnership between
Dagong Global Credit,
Egan-Jones Ratings, and
RusRating. In 2014, it described itself as the only international credit rating agency based in the Asia Pacific area.
Advisory Council
On 23June 2014, UCRG announced its 2015-20 operating plan along with the formation of an advisory council to the group chaired by former French Prime Minister
Dominique de Villepin
Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin (; born 14 November 1953) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 31 May 2005 to 17 May 2007 under President Jacques Chirac.
In his career working at the Ministry ...
. The other initial members are former Australian Prime Minister
Kevin Rudd
Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian former politician and diplomat who served as the 26th prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and again from June 2013 to September 2013, holding office as the leader of the ...
, former Pakistan Prime Minister
Shaukat Aziz
Shaukat Aziz ( ur, ; born 6 March 1949) is a Pakistani former banker and financier who served as 17th prime minister of Pakistan from 28 August 2004 to 15 November 2007, as well as the finance minister of Pakistan from 6 November 1999 to 1 ...
and former Russian Foreign Minister
Igor Ivanov
Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov (born 23 September 1945) is a Russian politician who was Foreign Minister of Russia from 1998 to 2004 under both the Yeltsin and the Putin administrations.
Early life
Ivanov was born in 1945 in Moscow to a Russian fathe ...
References
External links
Website
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Financial services companies established in 2013
Credit rating agencies
Financial services companies of Hong Kong