Tag: Credit Rating
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Rating Agencies Back in the Spotlight
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] S&P has indeed made a bold move by downgrading United States’ sovereign rating. While there may by political opposition, quibbles with the arithmetic, and the like, there is a strong view that those amount to “shooting the messenger”. The downgrading by S&P assumes greater importance because it comes in the wake…
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NALSAR Student Law Review: New Issue
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] The latest issue of the NALSAR Student Law Review (which is available online) carries a number of articles that may be relevant to readers of this Blog. Here is a list of those: – Regulation and Responsibility of Credit Rating Agencies vis-a-vis the Current Economic Crisis- A Comparative Analysis – Rethinking…
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Bits of Interest
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] 1. Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies Drawing lessons from the role of credit rating agencies (CRAs) in the recent financial crisis, SEBI has imposed additional transparency and disclosure norms for the Indian CRAs. SEBI’s circular issued on May 3, 2010 covers issues such as maintenance of records of the rating process,…
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Regulating Credit Rating Agencies
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] The RBI recently put out two documents, (i) the Report of the Committee on Comprehensive Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies prepared “in response to the direction given by the High Level Coordination Committee on Financial Markets to reflect on the inter regulatory issues emanating from the activities of Credit Rating Agencies”,…