Why do some poorly run large corporates have banks falling over themselves to lend them money while some excellent small businesses struggle to find financing to pursue growth practically knocking at their doors? Why do banks ignore businesses that employ the vast majority of the labor force in emerging market economies while funding larger, and often foreign-owned businesses? How is this good for sustainable, equitable development? It's not, and it shouldn't happen! But it does and frankly, who could blame the banks? There simply exists a huge gulf in information that SMEs have access to and could present to their bankers.
Seeing this scenario play out year after year, and economy after economy, the 74 G.A. team (pronounced: "Seven, Four, G, A,") devised a path to break this pernicious cycle. What if we could standardize and automate the credit rating of firms? Not only that, but what if we could one-size the analysis, so that large or small, we could compare and place on one scale? And what if that scale is one already easily understood, like S&P's, Moodys' or Fitch's? And finally, what if we make it affordable and in reach of most businesses, regardless of size? Thus was born 74 G.A.
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With close to two decades of experience in the credit rating of sovereigns, large corporates and SMEs, Dr. Stefan Fortuné's vision to increase access to capital for underbanked medium and small businesses, critical to driving economic development in emerging economies, led him to the novel creation of the credit rating probability estimate models. He has developed and taught numerous financial professionals in topics of macroeconomics, risk management and credit rating methodologies. Besides spearheading methodological developments for credit ratings specific for emerging economies, he has extensive knowledge in S&P's, Moody's and Fitch's global approaches. Dr. Stefan Fortuné holds a Ph.D. in Economics and has research interests in the area of poverty alleviation.
Dr. Stefan Fortuné
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