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Credit Rating Agencies  When a Solution Becomes Part of the Problem


Author:  Joan Teresa Kay.


Source: Volume 22, Number 02, November/December 2008 , pp.9-20(12)




Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions

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Abstract: 

The SEC would prohibit a credit rating agency from issuing a rating on a structured product unless information on assets underlying the product was made available, though the degree of dissemination required would vary depending on the public or private nature of the offering.

Keywords: Nationally recognized statistical rating organizations; derivatives; structured products; credit default swaps;

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