Credit Rating Agencies Essay
overhaul of credit rating agencies, 2014, p. 3). Prior to the 2008 housing bubble burst, investment bankers and securities issuers practiced what is known as “ratings shopping” and hired the CRA that would provide them with the most advantageous ratings (New rules will fail to reform ratings agencies, 2014). Although regulators have encouraged CRAs to offer unsolicited ratings on issuances they have not been hired to rate, ratings shopping has been revived (New rules will fail to reform ratings agencies, 2014). Most industry analysts agree that the CRAs were responsible for causing the financial crisis, with the overarching motivation being greed (New rules will fail… Continue Reading...