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S&P balks at SEC proposal to reveal rating errors | Reuters

The SEC is weighing sweeping new rules designed to improve the quality of ratings after their poor performance in the financial crisis.

The 517-page proposal includes a requirement that ratings agencies post on their websites when a "significant error" is identified in their methodology for a credit rating action.

The letter was sent three days after the U.S. Treasury Department accused S&P of miscalculating -- by some $2 trillion -- the U.S. debt in the next 10 years. That calculation was in a draft press release announcing a downgrade in the government's credit rating from AAA to AA-plus.


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Good luck.

Here is a question I'd like to pose to the members though: What is the simplest way to make the rating agencies more accountable for their ratings? Identifying "errors" is one thing, but what changes should be made so that when they upgrade or downgrade something it actually means something more than just politcs or helping Goldman get a better price?

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IMO , it's all by them and for them , we don't even have access to the real information - only the headlines


look at credit world, who the heck is Markit and what's behind all of the pricing etc...


Financial Information Services - Markit.com

all the new regulations and rules etc... IMO don't touch on the real problems that exist -- smoke and mirrors

Dodd-Frank Final Rules - CFTC

Video - Hedge Fund Industry Braces For New Financial Rules - WSJ.com 9/28/2010

anything but transparent

"The banks are better than ever"?

why because they have new accounting rules

Tier 3 Capital Definition

Basel III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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sorry I don't have an answer , all I know is until we actually get transparency and truth , nothing will be fixed at all


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I guess we can start by having them be held accountable to their public comments : or maybe just for them to keep quiet

they are starting to "daytrade" credit ratings too, how about a quarterly report or is that what they do already , I don't even know ....

They have all affirmed France's credit rating today of AAA

so what happens next week ?


TODAYonline | Business | France's credit rating is safe, insist agencies


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