Fitch Group

American credit rating agency
Organization enterprise Q871325
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Summary

Fitch Group is an enterprise[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of enterprise entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,857 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: credit rating[3]
  • Country: United States[4], United Kingdom[5], US[6]
  • Instance of: organization[7]
  • Founder: Lorenzo Ostuni[8]
  • Owned by: Hearst Communications[9]
  • Headquarters location: London[10]
  • Child organization or unit: Fitch Ratings Japan[11]
  • Commons category: Fitch Ratings[12]
  • Industry: financial services[13]
  • Inception: December 24, 1913[14], 1997-09-30[15]
  • Location of formation: New York City[16]
  • Parent organization or unit: Hearst Communications[17]
  • Official website: http://www.fitchratings.com/[18]
  • Employees: 2300[19]
  • Legal form: New York Business Corporation[20], XTIQ[21]
  • Social media followers: 131,289[22], 132,503[23], 135,546[24]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 213800YMBSB9KK425I98[25]

  • Registered legal name: Fitch Group, INC.[26]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[27]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[28]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[29]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[30]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[31]

  • Entity created: 1997-09-30[32]

  • LEI first registered: 2023-08-23[33]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-06-24[34]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-08-23[35]

  • Managing LOU: 213800WAVVOPS85N2205[36]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[37]

  • Authority entity ID: 2802859[38]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[39]

Why It Matters

Fitch Group has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] It is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . lobbyfacts.eu. lobbyfacts.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [37] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [38] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [39] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [40] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [41] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 42D2-1F56-E7FC-DF0C-87C0
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: 42D2-1F56-E7FC-DF0C-87C0, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
  2. 11w ago · Profesorul Blazat · 2026-07-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Founder → Lorenzo Ostuni
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Founder: John Knowles Fitch"
  3. 23w ago · Yirba · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Child organization or unit → Fitch Ratings Japan
    Companies house company id → 01316230
    Headquarters location → London
    Instance of → enterprise, organization
    + 26 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/30163|batch #30163]]: OpenCorporates company ID to Companies House company ID"
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