Insight: Credit crisis lurches from bad numbers to bad writing
Is this a real triple-A or a rating agency triple-A? Investors should be aware that semantics matter when asking this question, writes Arturo Cifuentes
Ratings agencies under fire
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Market turmoil in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis has again raised questions about the accuracy of agencies’ ratings and conflicts of interest
Berkshire examined in credit ratings probe
Berkshire Hathaway is being examined as part of a broad investigation into conflicts of interest in the credit rating industry that is being conducted by the Connecticut attorney-general
Ratings agencies slam guarantee proposals
‘Redundant’ warning to regulators
SEC to report on credit rating agencies
US watchdog working on proposals for new rules
SEC to propose rules on ratings conflicts
Broad review of the industry underway
Moody’s tougher on mortgage lenders
Measure to improve borrower information
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Ratings reform
One option is for issuers to pay into an independently managed pool that would assign a rating agency, breaking the commercial incentive to rate bonds high
On Wall St: Rating agencies struggle to make the grade
Investor outrage and regulatory pressure has lashed the ratings agencies, writes Michael Mackenzie
Ratings agencies move to quell critics
Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch plan to appoint advisory boards and to separate sales teams from credit analysis to address the conflicts of interest issue, writes Gillian Tett
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