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.
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Rating Agencies have borne much of the blame for the credit crisis, but now they’re fighting back with accusations that they were misled by the banks whose securities they rated. R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes provides his insights on the controversy on Business News Network’s Squeezeplay.
R&R Consulting principal Ann Rutledge is interviewed in an article on how to address the monopoly rating agencies currently enjoy, to the detriment of the debt market and the economy as a whole.
Read the full article by Vanessa Drucker, “Second Rate,” on the FundStrategy website.
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R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes is among the experts interviewed by CNN’s Alan Chernoff for a feature on the role of rating agencies in the credit crisis.
Watch “The other economic culprit,” on CNN, April 30, 2010.
MarketWatch interviews R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes on the importance of informed analysis in marketing CDOs.
Read the full article by Alistair Barr: “Out of Thin Air: Synthetic CDOs, at the center of Goldman suit, inflated the credit bubble,” MarketWatch, April 26, 2010.
R&R Consulting principal Ann Rutledge is interviewed at length on the Daily Finance website about the need for drastic reforms to address shortcomings in the CDO market highlighted by the Goldman Sach Abacus case.
Read the full interview by Peter Cohan, “Behind the $4 Trillion in CDOs: Sneaky Banks and Worthless Ratings,” Daily Finance, April 26, 2010
An article in the current issue of Corporate Board Member quotes R&R Consulting principals Sylvain Raynes and Ann Rutledge on the effects new corporate strategies can have on credit ratings. Read the full article by Sharon Kahn, “Why Risking a Lower Credit Rating Can Make Good Strategic Sense.”
R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes is quoted in a ground-breaking expose by McClatchy Newspapers on how Moody’s compromised the integrity of its credit ratings:
“As the housing market collapsed in late 2007, Moody’s Investors Service, whose investment ratings were widely trusted, responded by purging analysts and executives who warned of trouble and promoting those who helped Wall […]
R&R Consulting’s Ann Rutledge comments on the importance of updating structured security ratings — a service provided by R&R’s patented ABSTRAK technology — in “When Bond Ratings Get Stale” by Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times, October 10, 2009.