With healthcare reform the hot topic of the day, R&R Consulting's Sylvain Raynes was interviewed on David Webb's Grinder Show to describe how the cybernetic approach to healthcare finance reform developed by R&R and Standard Medical Acceptance Corporation (SMA) could bring healthcare costs under control. Tune...
R&R principal Sylvain Raynes, a former Moody's executive, discusses the ongoing controversy over conflicts of interests at rating agencies on Bloomberg Television. Watch the September 30 interview on YouTube....
Newsweek quotes R&R Consulting's Sylvain Raynes regarding recent testimony by a former Moody's managing director before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform alleging that the rating agency was criminally deceiving investors by purportedly inflating ratings on securities even into the current year: "...
Business bloger Yael Bizouati interviewed R&R's Sylvain Raynes about former Moody's analyst Eric Kolchinsky's testimony on ratings-firm reform before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Raynes says Moody's should be "put out of its misery" for its "pattern of fraud," and describes a...
"Sylvain Raynes is a principal with R&R Consulting, which values structured security deals. He says if the agencies don't change their ratings often, it'll be a sign something funny is happening. 'If you see the ratings are not moving at all and yet you, by...
The Los Angeles Times quotes R&R Consulting's Sylvain Raynes on the lessons learned -- or not-- in the financial industry one year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. "[Raynes] became an early critic of the excesses in the so-called structured-finance market. Now, instead of creating the...
R&R Consulting's Sylvain Raines comments on plans by veteran investigator Jules B. Kroll to create a new credit rating agency. Read the full article by Geraldine Fabrikant, "Corporate Sleuth Plans to Start Credit Rating Firm," The New York Times, August 28, 2009....
The 2008 taxpayer bailout and a long string of corporate restructurings and downsizings have shifted risk from corporations to individuals. Most Americans were caught in a high-stakes Monopoly game where they didn't know the rules. Read the full article on the Carnegie Council website....
"Is the financial system stable enough yet to fix itself?" In a Fortune article exploring this question, R&R's Sylvain Raynes sees the prospect of a CIT Group bankruptcy as a new beginning. "There is still value in CIT that can be picked out if the...
R&R principal Sylvain Raynes calls for the government to take the lead in weaning the financial markets off their reliance on rating agencies. Reuters reports, "The Obama administration has said it wants markets to reduce their reliance on ratings after Moody's Investors Service, Standard &...