Examples of rating agency

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The influence of the rating agencies has two sources.
Therefore, rating agencies ask companies to use pension funds or other instruments to reduce internal pension savings.
By contrast, risk rating agencies are restricted to the information that is voluntarily released by the managers of public firms.
At the same time, rating agencies should not penalize countries that make the liabilities of the pension system explicit (even if not tradable).
The rating agencies' relationship with sovereigns is not best understood in terms of relative power - which they have gained and lost.
This amounted to a ' signalling ' strategy, given that by the mid-1990s rating agencies included structural pension reform as a positive point in their country-risk assessments.%!
It is not a question of demonising rating agencies.
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I do not want the same thing to happen to us where rating agencies are concerned.
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As you all know, the role of rating agencies is increasing nowadays.
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Would things have been so much different if we had had some sort of supervisory architecture in place, particularly in terms of the rating agencies?
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There will be several more in the coming weeks and months, starting with the proposal on rating agencies early next month.
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If we want credibility, we need to discuss the rating agencies now.
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There is a need to review the business model of rating agencies and the legal standing of their ratings.
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These rating agencies openly serve the interests of international speculators.
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Three sectors about which we are particularly concerned are investment banks, rating agencies and auditors' firms.
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I am in favour of a rapid strengthening of the rules governing the activities of rating agencies and their supervision.
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It is a fact that rating agencies have, in the capital market, a very great deal of power and influence over enterprises.
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Another solution would be to prohibit rating agencies from access to inside information from issuers, as is done in the case of financial analysts.
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The text on rating agencies must implement the lessons learned from the proven shortcomings.
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In my opinion, this oligopoly of rating agencies is highly volatile.
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This raises the question about what these rating agencies actually do.
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I do wonder, however, if a thermometer is really a suitable metaphor for rating agencies.
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Analysing the various causes of the financial crisis has shown that there was an urgent need to enact legislation on rating agencies.
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I personally spoke with several governments several times about the need for regulation on rating agencies.
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Auditors, however, seem to be subject to far stricter rules than the rating agencies.
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We cannot trust rating agencies; we can criticise them, but the problem will remain.
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We must think about protection for the investors and their confidence in rating agencies.
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I do not wish to discuss here the importance of rating agencies.
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We do need to look at our rating agencies, but please remember that they have not got everything wrong.
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It is therefore high time that rating agencies were kept in check.
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Therefore, rating agencies did not help predict or diagnose the crisis.
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For what do we find among the rating agencies?
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Perhaps if we were to develop our ideas further in that direction, we would have fewer concerns over rating agencies.
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One thing is for sure: whether they overrate or underrate a financial product, the influence of the rating agencies on global financial markets is enormous.
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Above all, rating agencies assess companies and countries.
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The second conflict of interest, and the most controversial, relates to the remuneration of rating agencies by the companies they rate.
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This process could well involve the rating agencies making their own proposals.
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As a self-regulating instrument of regulation, the rating agencies serve to extend the liberalisation of the capital markets.
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All rating agencies must abide by the highest standards relating to the publication of information, transparency and management of conflicts of interest.
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Secondly, the regime for the rating agencies could profit from the rules that have been established for the auditors.
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The rating agencies and auditors have a lot of responsibility for the good reputation of companies and the proper functioning of the market.
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Therefore, it is important to set up a mechanism for monitoring and supervising rating agencies.
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Moreover, rating agencies do not have the same resources as regulators.
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