Credit rating agencies

FSF calls for rating agency changes to aid market

Banks, investors and rating agencies are bracing themselves for a barrage of new regulatory guidance, consultation papers and capital charges in the wake of a report by the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) on April 12, which made a series of…

Legal lethargy

Constraining buy-side institutions to hold only investment-grade securities uses a nearly century-old metric with limited contemporary relevance. David Rowe supports one modest proposed reform