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rating agencies

Independent firms that are engaged to rate securities' creditworthiness on behalf of investors.

Related information about rating agencies:
  1. Credit rating agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Credit rating agencies may also play a key role in structured financial transactions. Unlike a "typical" loan or bond issuance, where a borrower offers to pay a ...
     
  2. Credit rating agencies and the subprime crisis - Wikipedia, the free ...
    Credit rating agencies played a very important role at various stages in the subprime crisis. They have been highly criticized for understating the risk involved ...
     
  3. FT.com / In depth / Ratings agencies
    ... over Buffett links. Rating agencies warned over conflict of interest as EU member states and parliament agree on compromise proposals to reform the sector ...
     
  4. BBC News - What is a rating agency?
    Jul 24, 2012 ... They are credit-rating agencies, which exist to assess the creditworthiness of bond issuers - companies or, as in this case, countries who ...
     
  5. Rating Agencies - NRSROs
    May 12, 2011 ... Credit Rating Agencies—NRSROs. A credit rating agency is a firm that provides its opinion on the creditworthiness of an entity and the financial ...
     
  6. Rating Agencies - Credit Rating Agencies
    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 ...
     
  7. Rating Agencies - European Commission - Europa
    and Australia PDF as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/ 2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies.
     
  8. Europe declares war on rating agencies - Telegraph
    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 ...