Jul 25, 2011 – S&P, Moody's, Fitch helped create our current fiscal disaster. Why listen to them on the Federal budget?

Jul 22, 2011 – If global finance were anything like the rest of life, no one would be paying much mind to the credit rating agencies, who have been revealed to .

Jul 22, 2011 – They may be small players, but they make strong arguments.

Oct 10, 2011 – New York Life Insurance Company and New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation have among the highest ratings from the leading .

Jul 6, 2011 – A chorus of policy-makers from Europe and across the world have denounced Moody's drastic downgrade of Portuguese debt as an act of .

Aug 11, 2011 – This doesn't mean their ratings are pure advertising; the agencies often . And by putting ratings agencies in the spotlight again, S&P might well .

3 days ago – Back when “Meredith Whitney says all your munis are belong to default” looked like it could be more like her bank calls than, say, Harold .

Sep 28, 2009 – But to that list he could have added credit-rating agencies like . Rating agencies have been around for a century, and their ratings have been .

Credit rating agencies are key players in the financial markets, assessing the ability of corporate and governmental borrowers to incur and service debt, and the .

Jul 6, 2011 – The "Big Three" credit rating agencies can determine the fate of entire countries, by deciding whether they are creditworthy or not. Now Portugal .

Jul 26, 2011 – The relationship between the rating agencies and banks is a perfect case study of flawed incentives. With banks paying them to rate their .

A Credit rating agency (CRA) is a company that assigns credit ratings for issuers of certain types of debt obligations as well as the debt instruments themselves. .

Aug 3, 2011 – Despite playing a hugely damaging role in the 2009 financial collapse, credit rating agencies were a central player in the debt ceiling debate.

www.standardandpoors.com/ - Cached - SimilarDebt Ceiling: Unaccountable Credit Ratings Agencies Go Rogue . You +1'd this publicly. UndoJul 27, 2011 – Zachary Karabell on the real bogeymen of the debt debacle: unaccountable ratings agencies.

Aug 19, 2011 – Read 'MOODY'S ANALYST BREAKS SILENCE: Says Ratings Agency Rotten To Core With Conflicts, Corruption, And Greed' from our blog .

May 18, 2011 – The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed sweeping .

Credit Rating Agencies have received heavy criticism for their contributions to the economic crisis that started in 2007 and continues currently. Indeed, the .

Kroll Bond Rating Agency, a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (NRSRO), was established by Jules Kroll to restore trust in credit ratings by .

Aug 19, 2011 – Former senior vice president William J. Harrington files a blockbuster tell-all with the SEC.

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Sep 26, 2011 – Though they've been faulted for their central role in the financial crisis, the major credit-ratings agencies have thus far weathered the fallout of .

Today's proposal is designed to implement provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act regarding “Improvements to the Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies.”1 It also .

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Aug 8, 2011 – It's ironic that it precipitated a flight to treasuries," said Jim Nadler, the president of Kroll Bond Rating Agency, a startup competitor to Standard .

Jul 14, 2011 – It's been a big week for credit rating agencies in global politics. On Wednesday, July 13, rating service Moody's (you might remember them from .

May 12, 2011 – A credit rating agency is a firm that provides its opinion on the . Generally, credit ratings distinguish between investment grade and .

Jul 14, 2011 – Ratings agencies, who rate the risk and financial viability of all sorts of debt products, were one of the major scapegoats of the financial crisis. .

Jul 24, 2011 – In 1996 Thomas Friedman said: “There are two superpowers in the world today in my opinion. There's the United States and there's Moody's .

Securities, Rating Agencies. . 04.08.2011, An updated list of registered and certified credit rating agencies PDF ↗ is published by the European Securities and .

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Jul 27, 2011 – Shares of Moody's fall despite strong earnings. S&P owner McGraw-Hill hit too. Irony alert! Threat of U.S. debt downgrade may be hurting them .

Jul 29, 2011 – Odds are increasing that a ratings agency will downgrade the U.S. debt. How that affects the stock and bond markets is less clear.

Jul 5, 2011 – Ratings agencies seem to be cutting off several paths that .

Aug 13, 2011 – Treasuries deserved a “quadruple-A” rating, he harrumphed. The world's best- known investor may be short some of the ratings agencies' .

Your rating agencies have disgraced your calling well beyond the conflict of interest built into your business (i.e. that you are paid for your ratings of financial .

Sep 30, 2011 – The Securities and Exchange Commission report said the companies had repeatedly failed to follow their own procedures, but said it was “most .

Jul 27, 2011 – In The Wall Street Journal, Business World columnist Holman W. Jenkins Jr. writes that the opinions offered by Standard & Poor's on U.S. debt .

Aug 1, 2011 – U.S. credit rating: Credit ratings agencies mum so far on debt-ceiling deal.

Jul 28, 2011 – As everyone knows by now, the credit-rating agencies in New York have put the U.S. government on notice that it might lose its “AAA” debt .

Market turmoil in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis has again raised questions about the accuracy of agencies ratings and conflicts of interest.

Aug 17, 2011 – When Standard & Poor's recently lowered the U.S. government debt rating for the first time in history, it set off a firestorm of criticism, from the .

Jul 28, 2011 – How did a bunch of unelected corporate suits get the power to wreck the global economy? > Yesterday, I taped an interview with Canadian TV, .

Fitch Ratings is a global rating agency dedicated to providing value beyond the rating through objective and balanced credit opinions, research and data.

Jul 25, 2011 – Ratings Agency Source: Boehner Plan Would Lead To Downgrade Of U.S. Debt, Reid Plan Would Preserve AAA Rating | Today on CNN, Erin .

Aug 2, 2011 – Are credit rating agencies born stupid, or is their particular brand of stupidity an acquired skill? Even after today's scurrilous debt ceiling deal .

Aug 2, 2011 – WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - The man who holds in his hands the fate of U.S. credit, and with it potentially the global economy, favors .

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Jul 15, 2011 – The political infighting in Washington took on global .

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