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The Motley Fool
February 8, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Rating Agencies Begin to Come Clean If any group deserves the most blame for shady practices that gave credence to subprime debt, it might be the rating agencies.   |
Financial Advisor
November 2009
Seth Becker |
The Crisis Next Time Lessons from the recent financial crisis may help avert a future meltdown. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Alan Greenspan on the Financial Collapse Love him or hate him, Greenspan opens up on the past two years. |
The Motley Fool
April 18, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
Revealed: 3 Emails That Explain the Crisis Released last week, a new 650-page Senate report on the financial crisis describes multiple aspects of a financial system run amok, including the way in which bankers muscled ratings agencies to turbo-charge their deal-making machine. |
CFO
June 1, 2010
Randy Myers |
Ratings Disaster Congress takes another stab at reforming the credit-rating agencies, whose AAA seal of approval helped fuel the subprime crisis. But will any change truly make a difference? |
U.S. Banker
July 2008
Michael Sisk |
A `Radical' Answer to Credit-Ratings Conflict The government should remove itself completely from the credit-rating business, stop deciding which company can and can't rate a bond, and stop making institutions pay attention to rating agencies whose work may be shoddy - and, it often turns out, is. |
Bank Director
1st Quarter 2011
Jack Milligan |
In the Eye of the Storm Former Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan speaks candidly about the financial crisis of 2008, the landmark Dodd-Frank Act and the need for minimum loan underwriting standards for the banking industry. |
BusinessWeek
August 6, 2007
Roben Farzad |
Let The Blame Begin Everyone played some role in the subprime mess - the Street, lenders, ratings agencies, hedge funds, even homeowners. Where does responsibility lie? |
Financial Advisor
August 2009
Seth Becker |
What Can We Do? The financial crisis shows that we must manage our own affairs -- responsibly and with restraint -- or someone will do it for us. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2010
Moscovitz & Koppenheffer |
Wall Street Reform: The Good, the Meh, and the Ugly A Foolish take on what's in the Senate bill. |
BusinessWeek
April 7, 2011
Karen Weise |
Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Could Get Bigger Federal agencies putting mortgage and derivative reforms into force are writing rules that seem to have a big-bank bias. |
The Motley Fool
May 21, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Put the Rating Agencies Out of Their Misery Before It's Too Late Once again, raters have proven themselves stuck on stupid. Congress is waking up. Two amendments in the just-passed Senate financial overhaul bill could euthanize the flawed parts of the rating system. |
InternetNews
September 19, 2008
Paul Shread |
Investors Cheer Financial Rescue Plan Investors responded enthusiastically Friday to the federal government's massive financial rescue plan, but the long-term process of sorting winners and losers is just beginning. |
BusinessWeek
November 29, 2004
Amy Borrus |
Rating Agencies Get A Credit Check The SEC and European regulators are debating new rules for the U.S.-led credit rating industry. The commission probably will ask Congress for authority to require rating agencies to open their books and records to the SEC. |
Salon.com
February 5, 2002
Damien Cave |
Risky business How did Enron break into the elite Wall Street world of credit derivatives? |
The Motley Fool
May 3, 2010
Nick Kapur |
Why Do We Still Listen to the Ratings Agencies? How can investors put their faith back into the very institutions that have, at least partially, created the great financial collapse? |
The Motley Fool
January 12, 2010
Morgan Housel |
5 Questions for Bankers A gaggle of Wall Street bankers will be hauled before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission later this week. The topic: their role in blowing up the economy. |
U.S. Banker
July 2009
Andrew Dubinsky |
Electronic Lending Could Help Avert Another Crisis If regulators had the tools in place to effectively view complex debt instruments and the links between the financial institutions that securitize, hold, and insure them this crisis may not have happened. |
Bank Systems & Technology
June 24, 2008
Thompson & Mataconis |
Banks Must Rely On Their Own Risk Models in Future Long-term, it's clear that banks will have to provide more transparency into their credit and risk decisions -- and do a lot more of the work themselves. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 21, 2010 |
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation What do Harvard Business School faculty experts who conduct research on financial markets and regulation and who, in many cases, have held leadership positions in the financial sector, think about the bill and its intended (and unintended) consequences? |
U.S. Banker
May 2007
Thomas P. Vartanian |
Crisis and Opportunity In Subprime Mortgage Markets Problems in the subprime mortgage business will inevitably lead to opportunities for those who can evaluate, service or manage the underlying loans, securities and real estate. |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2010
Ilan Moscovitz |
Quit Whining, Ratings Agencies! Fast-forward to the day financial reform is signed into law. Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's (a division of McGraw Hill), the big three debt ratings agencies, are refusing to rate debt. |
CFO
September 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
Over Rated? The subprime fiasco has put corporate credit-ratings on thin ice. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2010
Anand Chokkavelu |
Buffett, the Rating Agencies, and a Possible Opportunity Warren Buffett discusses the rating agencies and suggests a company that may be coming to eat their lunch. |
BusinessWeek
May 12, 2011
Roger Lowenstein |
Wall Street: Not Guilty Why have no executives gone to jail for their roles in the financial crisis? Perhaps because risk-taking and stupidity aren't criminal. |
BusinessWeek
March 11, 2010
Roger Lowenstein |
Commentary: First, Slap Limits on Bank Leverage The fight over a financial consumer protection agency misses the point. What fueled the crisis was bank debt. |
The Motley Fool
July 16, 2010
Ilan Moscovitz |
Will This Stop the Next Financial Armageddon? What key measures in the 2,322-page financial reform bill actually matter, and will they stop the next financial Armageddon? |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Moody's Blues Debt-ratings agency Moody's watches its earnings and reputation erode, as the once-lucrative business of rating batches of collateralized debt obligations has begun to sour. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2009
Smith & Smith |
Who's More to Blame: Congress or the Ratings Agencies? U.S. taxpayers have been handed a $700 billion TARP bill and told to bail out banks "too big to fail." Well, it was Congress who let the banks become too big in the first place. Or did the ratings agencies fail to provide in-depth and accurate analyses of the contents of mortgage-stuffed securities? |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2011
Morgan House |
Why So Few Ended Up in Jail After the Financial Crisis Banks took down the economy. Why they walked away unscathed. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 31, 2009
Martha Lagace |
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies Competition in credit ratings forces raters to favor issuers. This is contrary to the interest of those who rely on ratings to make investment decisions or to regulate. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2009
Morgan Housel |
The Most Powerful Companies in the World Allowing one company's actions to have so much influence over the economy is terribly dangerous and never should have happened. But it is still happening, with ratings agencies. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Still the Most Powerful Companies in the World The unmatched power of the rating agencies Moody's and Standard & Poor's. |
CFO
January 1, 2003 |
Credit Watch S&P's Leo O'Neill to SEC: We are not the watchdogs. |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Mortgage-Mess Criminals Finally Going to Jail In the wake of the devastating financial and housing crisis, many Americans have been outraged that more of the folks responsible haven't gone to jail. That may well be changing. |
CFO
March 1, 2007
Rob Garver |
Nothing to Bank On Bank executives will undoubtedly spend much of the next year assessing the likelihood and impact of new rules, while at the same time trying to keep earnings growth on its upward trend. |
BusinessWeek
September 9, 2009
Francis & Coy |
No Big Fix for Global Finance New regulations will be tepid - and will leave the global financial system, and taxpayers, at risk. |
Bank Director
2nd Quarter 2010
Eugene A. Ludwig |
Discerning the New Financial Services Landscape The former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency and vice chairman of Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank, offers his views on what is likely to come out of upcoming reform legislation as well as areas that are far from clear. |
