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.

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 ...

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

The investigations came as the US senate voted in favour of tougher regulation of the credit rating agencies, which have been blamed for their part in the financial crisis. Under the proposals ...

The bond rating downgrades came days after Mayor Karen Bass outlined the city’s stark economic situation in her proposed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...