...Fitch Ratings assesses New Zealand Local Government Funding Agency Limited (LGFA) under the agency's Government-Related Entities (GRE) Rating Criteria. LGFA is credit-linked to the New Zealand government (AA+/Negative), and its Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) take into consideration the government's significant responsibility and incentives to provide financial support to the agency. LGFA provides most of New Zealand's local-government financing, and its ratings are therefore equalised with those of the sovereign....