LACE Financial specializes in issuing credit ratings of financial institutions. Founded in 1984, the company has been recognized as an impartial and innovative leader in providing credit rating services on approximately 19,000 domestic and international financial institutions, title insurers, trust preferred security issues, and foreign country sovereign ratings. Typical clients which use LACE Financial's credit ratings include cash managers and treasurers of Fortune 500 companies, state municipalities, and other government agencies, investment bankers, and portfolio managers. Each quarter, LACE Financial Corporation provides its clients with up-to-date credit ratings on all rated institutions.

About the LACE Public Library Service

LACE Financial is happy to be able to offer access to our financial institution ratings to Public Libraries. Subscribers can search and access US financial institutions and obtain their last five quarterly ratings, asset size, peer group averages for our key indicators – Liquidity, Asset Quality, Capital, and Earnings, as well as our opinion of the institution’s overall financial condition. If you are a library that does not currently subscribe, please contact Diana Christ at diana.christ@lacefinancial.com for information about the service and pricing, or you may call us at 410-827-4092.