Moody’s Middle East Limited prides itself on being able to meet the needs of its Middle Eastern customers thanks to a combination of local expertise and global experience, while ensuring consistency with other Moody’s offices worldwide. After a long history of rating sovereigns and banks in the region, Moody’s began operations in the region, located in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), in early 2007 with fully staffed analytical presence. It has since expanded its rating universe to a growing number of corporates and securitization transactions.

Our team consists of highly trained and experienced experts, dedicated to providing the best service possible and recruited from many different backgrounds, both cultural and professional.

Moody’s rates and publishes independent credit opinions on fixed-income securities, issuers of securities and other credit obligations. We rate debt obligations in the areas of Banking, Corporate, Project Finance, Sovereign and Regional/Local Governments and Supranationals, Structured Finance, Insurance and Managed Funds.

In an environment where global financial and capital markets depend more than ever on credit ratings, a Moody's rating provides crucial benefits and valuable opportunities for both issuers and investors.

For issuers, such benefits include wider, stable and more flexible access to global financial and capital markets, lower funding costs and greater liquidity.

Investors use Moody’s ratings to help price the credit risk of fixed-income securities or debts they may buy or sell or lend. And the values of our ratings are not limited to the time of any initial purchase decisions, but extend throughout the lives of rated instruments.

Furthermore, investors rely on our expertise and global focus for ongoing monitoring, opinion updates and rating adjustments. Many also use our ratings as a means for expanding their investment horizons to markets or security types they do not cover with their own analysis.

Moody’s is committed to meeting the growing demands of Middle East's credit market participants. Our experience both locally and globally means that we can tailor our products and services accordingly.

Moody’s Middle East Limited, is a non-regulated company incorporated in the Dubai International Financial Centre under Registration no. 0317 and having its registered office at Gate Village 4, Level 3, Dubai International Financial Centre, P.O. Box 113355, Dubai, UAE