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- 1From:Journal of Economic Issues (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the wake of the global financial crisis (GFC), there have been calls for changes in the credit ratings industry. The American and European responses were new regulation and supervision of the rating agencies'...
- 2From:Communications of the ACM (Vol. 39, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe software quality assurance engineers of Compatibility Maturity Model (CMM) can manipulate the rating system while assessing the performance of an organization. Consultants hired to analyze the CMM ratings of an...
- 3From:Bruegel-Policy ContributionsCredit rating agencies (CRAs) have not consistently met the expectations placed on them by investors and policymakers. It is difficult, however, to improve the quality of ratings through regulatory initiatives. In the...
- 4From:Insights: The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor (Vol. 25, Issue 12)The Dodd-Frank Act contains numerous provisions designed to increase oversight and accountability of the credit rating industry. Ongoing efforts to implement the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act are affecting rating...
- 5From:Strategic FinancePeer-ReviewedOnce again, an ethics scandal has resulted in a number of people who need to bear some blame. The list of major contributors to the subprime loan fiasco includes many of the usual suspects: greedy CEOs, disengaged...
- 6From:Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal (Vol. 43, Issue 4)I. INTRODUCTION Standards and practices in the field of reinsurance supervision vary widely among jurisdictions, with prudential approaches varying from direct supervision of reinsurers to supervision through cedants...
- 7From:Strategic Finance (Vol. 94, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedRecent developments indicate the need for greater and more effective oversight of credit rating agencies (CRAs). In the fallout from the financial crisis of 2008-2009, a debate arose regarding the culpability of CRAs in...
- 8From:Regulation (Vol. 36, Issue 1)* "Does It Matter Who Pays for Bond Ratings? Historical Evidence" by John Jiang, Mary Stanford, and Yuan Xie. November 2011. SSRN #1950748. Reform of the bond-rating agencies has been discussed in previous issues of...
- 9From:Risk Management (Vol. 50, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedStandard & Poor's U.S. LossStats Database compiles credit loss information on more than two thousand defaulted bank loans and high-yield bonds, as well as other debt instruments. With recent updates, reflecting a new...
- 10From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 113, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe West Virginia Mutual Insurance Company initially applied for a rating by the A. M. Best Company, recognized nationally and internationally as the preeminent insurance rating agency, in mid-2011. This culminated with...
- 11From:Financial Executive (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn an effort to improve the overall quality of the credit rating process by broadening the scope of their analyses, the major credit ratings agencies are planning to incorporate an entity's enterprise risk management...
- 12From:South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
A motivation for banks in emerging economies to adapt agency ratings when assessing corporate credit
This article considers whether South African banks should utilise the credit ratings provided by US-based credit rating agencies when assessing the creditworthiness of corporate borrowers. A review is conducted of... - 13From:CFO, The Magazine for Senior Financial Executives (Vol. 20, Issue 16)Finance executives have always had a love-hate relationship with credit-rating agencies (CRAs). But according to a recent survey by the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), it's more hate than love these days....
- 14From:European Medical Device Technology (Vol. 4, Issue 5)When Lloyd Diamond, CEO of startup Bonesupport (Lund, Sweden; www.bonesupport.com) accepted an invitation to visit the University Teaching Hospital of Butare (CHUB) in Rwanda on a humanitarian mission, he thought that...
- 15From:German Policy Studies (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the decades before the global financial crisis public regulators in the US but also in Continental Europe increasingly used private credit ratings as risk measures in financial regulation, thus granting credit rating...
- 16From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Wei Tian, Xiangyun Zhou *, Yixiang Tian, Wei Meng Introduction Ratings are important for the continuous development of the capital market. However, the phenomenon of rating inflation is obvious in...
- 17From:Gestao & Tecnologia (Vol. 23, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective: To analyze the effect of short-term variations in credit risk, ignored by the traditional methodologies of rating agencies, on the risk premium in the secondary market of corporate debt bonds issued by...
- 18From:Risk Management (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOver 200 insurance companies in the London and US markets were in liquidation or rehabilitation at the end of 1991. Rating agencies such as A.M. Best Co, Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investors Service have failed to...
- 19From:Risk Management (Vol. 42, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedStandard and Poor's (S&P) has introduced new rating systems to better define life health insurers' solvency. Usage of surplus relief reinsurance and surplus notes as new sources of capital and mortgage-backed investments...
- 20From:Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI. INTRODUCTION In 2007, a crisis in the subprime mortgage market in the U.S. began a financial crisis of global proportions. This Article looks at two areas where the U.S. subprime mortgage market crisis and its...