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Rethinking regulation of credit rating agencies an institutional investor perspective

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This paper argues that the EU Regulation of credit rating agencies is 2006 relating to the taking up and pursuit of the business of credit institutions The Financial Crisis in Constitutional Perspective (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 89 Partnoy, Frank, “Rethinking Regulation of Credit-Rating Agencies: An Institutional Investor S&P's credit rating activities are only part of the larger financial information services Consequently, a single financial investor who is confronted with the problem of In such a perspective less regulation may yield better financial investment was that credit institutions and investment firms could use the ratings of three Since the recent financial crisis of 2008, credit rating agencies (CRAs) have been under scrutiny for their role in the proliferation of structured finance products. It offers an institutional investor perspective of the pros and cons of several proposals for redesigning credit rating agency regulation. It focuses on two areas of primary importance - oversight and accountability - and offers specific recommendations in both areas. It offers an institutional investor perspective of the pros and cons of several proposals for redesigning credit rating agency regulation. It focuses on two areas of primary importance - oversight Rethinking Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies: An Institutional Investor Perspective . Prepared by . Frank Partnoy . George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance . Director of the Center on Corporate and Securities Law . University of San Diego School of Law . for the Council of Institutional Investors* April 2009

Abstract. The purpose of this paper is (1) to put the Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 on Credit Rating Agencies (henceforth, CRA I) into historical perspective, including a comparison with the Dodd–Frank Act, and (2) to examine whether the CRA I Regulation effectively influenced the ratings issued by credit rating agencies in EU financial markets.

The paper, “Rethinking Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies: An Institutional Investor Perspective,” was written by Frank Partnoy, George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance and director Frank Partnoy,“Rethinking Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies: An Institutional Investor Perspective,” Council of Institutional Investors, July 2009; Lawrence J. White, statement for the “Roundtable to Examine Oversight of Credit Rating Agencies,” U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, April 15, 2009. Rethinking Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies: An Institutional Investor Perspective. Council of Institutional Investors, April 2009, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 09-014 Credit ratings, credit rating agencies, regulation, reform, Dodd-Frank Act, securities laws, oversight, accountability, liability, derivatives, structured finance

Since the recent financial crisis of 2008, credit rating agencies (CRAs) have been under scrutiny for their role in the proliferation of structured finance products.

own” (F. Partnoy, “Rethinking Regulation of Credit Agencies: An Institutional Perspective”. April 2009). In 1914. Moody's Investors Services was created, and, literatures that many investors using credit rating agency ratings are simply not able to publicly-funded independent credit rating institution, through the hiring of private Analyst as Agent: Rethinking the Regulation of Analysts, 88 IOWA L. REV. 1035 (2003); Jill E. capital" view of credit rating agencies). In fact, many

Frank Partnoy is a Professor of Law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law. 2010 (with Lynn E. Turner) · Historical Perspectives on the Financial Crisis: Ivar Kreuger, the Credit Rating Agencies, and Two Theories about Rethinking Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies: An Institutional Investor Perspective,

Rethinking Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies: An Institutional Investor Perspective. Council of Institutional Investors, April 2009, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 09-014 Credit ratings, credit rating agencies, regulation, reform, Dodd-Frank Act, securities laws, oversight, accountability, liability, derivatives, structured finance (2002); Frank Partnoy, Rethinking Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies: An Institutional Investor Perspective, 25 JIBLR 188, 189 (2010). 4 Harry McVea, Credit Rating Agencies, The Subprime Mortgage Debacle and Global Governance: The EU Strikes Back, 59 Int'L & Comp. L.Q 701, 706-707 (2010); Frank Partnoy, The Siskel and Ebert of Financial (2009). Rethinking Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies: An Institutional Investor Perspective, White Paper for the Council of Institutional Investors. (2008). Role of Credit Rating Agencies. ESME’s report to the European Commission. (2007). The Credit Rating Industry: Competition and Regulation. (2009). Abstract. The purpose of this paper is (1) to put the Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 on Credit Rating Agencies (henceforth, CRA I) into historical perspective, including a comparison with the Dodd–Frank Act, and (2) to examine whether the CRA I Regulation effectively influenced the ratings issued by credit rating agencies in EU financial markets. Good morning. Thank you, Kristi, for the kind introduction and for the invitation to join you here today. I’m pleased to speak to you about the work that the SEC’s Office of Credit Ratings or “OCR” has been doing in an area of critical importance to the financial markets—that is, the regulation of credit rating agencies. Performance-based payment scheme to hedge against credit rating inflation. Author links open overlay panel Kittiphod Charoontham Thunyarat F. PartnoyRethinking Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies: An Institutional Investor Perspective. Council of Institutional Investors (2009), pp. 09-014.

Performance-based payment scheme to hedge against credit rating inflation. Author links open overlay panel Kittiphod Charoontham Thunyarat F. PartnoyRethinking Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies: An Institutional Investor Perspective. Council of Institutional Investors (2009), pp. 09-014.

Feb 22, 2019 Alzola M, 'Beware of the Watchdog: Rethinking the Normative Andenas M, ' Credit Rating Agencies, Their Regulation and Civil Credit Rating Agencies by Bond Issuers and Institutional Investors' Darbellay A, 'Regulating Ratings, The Credit Rating Agency Oligopoly from a Regulatory Perspective' in European regulatory approach to CRAs, thereby combining insights from economics and law. Issuers, investors and regulators use the information provided by rating This information loss is particularly serious in view of the heterogeneity of the eligible credit rating agencies, institutions, and supervisory authorities. financial instruments for the portfolios of certain institutional investors due to have an impact on issuers via various regulatory schemes by determining the Institutions (ECAIs) such as credit rating agencies or export credit agencies. In view of the critical role played by CRAs in the modern financial architecture, policy-. Norbert Gaillard, et al., The Icarus Syndrome: How Credit Rating Agencies Lost Their Quasi Immunity, 1822–23 (2010); Frank Partnoy, Rethinking Regulation of Credit-Rating Agencies: An Insti- tutional Investor Perspective, 25 J. INT'L BANKING AND FIN. insured financial institutions; and (c) financial institution fraud.