Berating the raters

- Risk Staff
- 01 Apr 2003

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Rating agencies – especially the two largest, Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s – have been subjected to an unprecedented barrage of criticism in the past 18 months. In late 2001 and throughout 2002, the rating agencies were criticised for being too slow in downgrading a raft of companies. Much of this criticism was focused on the agencies’ failure to give investors any real warning of Enron and WorldCom’s bankruptcies, in late 2001 and mid-2002 respectively.

In response to this criticism, late last

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