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 &...
Bloomberg commentator David Reilly quotes R&R's Ann Rutledge on the next target for regulators in mending the financial crisis: the "shadow banking system" of non-bank lending markets. Rutledge calls for "an exchange-like setting to provide the sort of standardization and rules that help trading of stocks...
In her article on the RGE Monitor Web site, R&R's Ann Rutledge discusses two myths that she sees offered as fact in a recent position paper by the Financial Economists Roundtable, "Reforming the Role of the Statistical Ratings Organizations in the Securitization Process." Myth 1:...
Recently the Financial Economists Roundtable (FER) posted a summary of their thinking in July 2008 on Reforming the Role of Statistical Rating Organizations [SROs] in the Securitization Process. The FER is a group of senior financial economists who advance the study of finance and frame...
"The mistaken notion that Moody's was a company like any other, that was very fundamental," said Sylvain Raynes, a former Moody's analyst who is co-founder of R&R Consulting, a firm that helps investors gauge debt risks. "It is not just a profit-maximization entity like Exxon...
The Securities and Exchange Commission's long-awaited new rules for bond rating agencies will do little to alter the practices that helped lead to the financial crisis, experts claimed…. "The market has barely taken note of the SEC action because its impact is so limited," said...