{"id":429,"date":"2023-10-18T14:11:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/companyincorporationmalta.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:11:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:11:19","slug":"malta-credit-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/companyincorporationmalta.com\/malta-credit-rating\/","title":{"rendered":"Malta Credit Rating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Malta is among the smallest countries in the world and its main strengths are the advantageous geographic position in Southern Europe and its labor force. Its economy relies mostly on tourism, manufacturing and foreign trade, which are attractive for many foreign entrepreneurs wanting to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.companyincorporationmalta.com\/\">set up a company in Malta<\/a>. This country changed its currency in 2008, when it switched to euro. Along with the European economic rebound after the financial crisis, Malta\u2019s economy has also increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #002e5b;color:#002e5b\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #002e5b;color:#002e5b\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/companyincorporationmalta.com\/malta-credit-rating\/#maltas-credit-rating\" title=\"Malta\u2019s credit rating \">Malta\u2019s credit rating <\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/companyincorporationmalta.com\/malta-credit-rating\/#what-will-upgrade-maltas-credit-rating\" title=\"What will upgrade Malta\u2019s credit rating?\">What will upgrade Malta\u2019s credit rating?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"maltas-credit-rating\"><\/span><strong>Malta\u2019s credit rating<\/strong><br><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually,&nbsp;<strong>credit rating<\/strong>&nbsp;is used by wealth funds, pension funds and other investors to measure the credit worthiness of Malta, thus influencing the country&#8217;s borrowing costs. The credit rating is also important for foreign entrepreneurs who&nbsp;<strong>open a company in Malta<\/strong>.<br><br>The trend is for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.companyincorporationmalta.com\/types-of-companies-malta\">companies in Malta<\/a>&nbsp;to ask for&nbsp;<strong>credit rating<\/strong>&nbsp;in order to ease their way into trading securities on different markets.<br><br>Moody\u2019s, Fitch and Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s, which are three of the greatest&nbsp;<strong>credit rating agencies<\/strong>&nbsp;in the world have rated&nbsp;<strong>Malta&nbsp;<\/strong>with&nbsp;<strong>positive and stable outlooks<\/strong>. According to the Government,&nbsp;<strong>Malta was granted a BBB+ rating&nbsp;<\/strong>with a positive outlook by Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s at the beginning of 2016. The other two agencies gave&nbsp;<strong>Malta an A rating&nbsp;<\/strong>with&nbsp;<strong>stable outlook<\/strong>&nbsp;last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These&nbsp;<strong>ratings<\/strong>, and most of all the outlooks, were given based on the prospects of an increasing economy by the end of 2018. These expectations are in line with the Government\u2019s efforts to consolidate the country\u2019s economy by putting in place new measures. The country\u2019s general governmental gross debt is also expected to decrease slightly over the next two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"what-will-upgrade-maltas-credit-rating\"><\/span><strong>What will upgrade Malta\u2019s credit rating?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The best news comes from Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s which announced that&nbsp;<strong>Malta is highly to outrun the Eurozone&nbsp;<\/strong>this year. Its economy is expected to grow by 2.8% on an annual basis by 2018. The increase will be most likely driven by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.companyincorporationmalta.com\/foreign-investments-in-malta\"><strong>foreign direct investments<\/strong><\/a>, which have increased considerably over the last few years and by a rise in private consumption, according to the credit rating agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other factors to help&nbsp;<strong>Malta maintain a positive outlook<\/strong>&nbsp;and a&nbsp;<strong>good credit rating&nbsp;<\/strong>score are the higher employment rates and wages and a constant migration flow which will bring a significant increase in investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br>If you need more information regarding&nbsp;<strong>Malta\u2019s credit rating<\/strong>&nbsp;or if you want to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.companyincorporationmalta.com\/register-company-malta\">open a company in Malta<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.companyincorporationmalta.com\/contact-us\">contact<\/a>&nbsp;our&nbsp;<strong>company formation agents<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malta is among the smallest countries in the world and its main strengths are the advantageous geographic position in Southern Europe and its labor force. Its economy relies mostly on tourism, manufacturing and foreign trade, which are attractive for many foreign entrepreneurs wanting to&nbsp;set up a company in Malta. This country changed its currency in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,46,47,9],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Malta Credit Rating<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Information about Malta credit rating and the opportunities for investments in this country. 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