Talk:Credit rating agency

Duplicate article

This article appears to be a duplicate of the one at Bond Ratings Please pick one name, and move the content there. J. Noel Chiappa 19:46, 25 May 2008 (CDT)

Proposed revision/replacement

I propose to rename this article "Credit rating agency", to retain only a small fraction of its content and to add the following material about credit rating agencies:

Their methods of risk assessment;

A Tutorials subpage note on their errors (such as this);

The part played by their incompetence in triggering the financial crisis (as revealed by evidence to various independent enquiries);

Regulatory measures and proposals;

A timeline of their major downgrades of commercial and sovereign debt;

External links to the agencies and to their newly-appointed regulatory authorities.

I also propose to create a separate linked article entitled "Sovereign default" to cover the causes and history of sovereign defaults, and of recoveries from them.

Nick Gardner 08:29, 8 February 2010 (UTC)