the credit rating agencies have become the target of criticism, this time on account of apparently lenient ratings granted to complex financial instruments backed by “subprime” mortgages.

South Africa could use its leadership role to champion the establishment of a global credit rating capacity building ...

Moody's is sounding the alarm on the U.S. fiscal picture again. The agency already downgraded America's top credit rating, along with Fitch, following a debt ceiling battle on Capitol Hill in 2023 ...

Credit-rating agencies, like Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, and Fitch, erroneously gave these bundles of subprime mortgages ... Leading to Global Financial Crisis The financial markets ...

The rise of private credit ... rating agency was rating them, they said they were double A or triple A, but they effectively ...

Federal worker layoffs and uncertainty over policy changes under the Trump administration have caused D.C. to lose its top “Aaa” credit rating with Moody’s Ratings. Moody’s, one of the three major ...

But the conferences had barely ended when a new crisis erupted. The epicenter of the crisis had changed—from Asia to the United States and Europe. And the buzzwords had, too. Securitization, subprime ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaking in Tokyo criticized credit ... sub-prime debt. Addressing an economic symposium during her three day tour of Japan, the German leader said ratings agencies ...

And winding down the agency's activities and its ability to keep an eye on lenders could open the door not only to ghosts of the subprime crisis but ... with good credit into higher-cost 'subprime ...