R&R has 8 out of the 10 required letters for NRSRO designation. The Office of Credit Ratings (OCR) at the SEC only considers one valid. A key area of disagreement is whether our valuations, calculated directly from our ratings, deserve to be considered "nationally recognized...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="190"] R&R Consulting in DealBook[/caption] DealBook - R&R Consulting Sets Sights on Being a Credit Ratings Agency. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/a-would-be-ratings-agency-without-rose-colored-glasses/...
R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes expresses skepticism over the effectiveness of a Senate proposal to establish a clearinghouse for rating complex securities. Read the full article by Karen Brettell, "Franken bill unlikely to make ratings more reliable," Reuters, May 14, 2010....
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...