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18 Mar 2010, 10:33 am by structuredsettlements
Annuitants with Hartford Life structured settlements will be interested in Standard & Poors rating action on Hartford Financial Services Group and its subsidiaries, which includes former structured annuity issuer, Hartford Life Insurance Company S&P credit analyst Shellie Stoddard is quoted in The Insurance Journal as saying: "The ratings affirmation reflects our opinion that HIG's brand and franchise survived a… [read post]
24 Apr 2008, 8:56 am
  The agencies -- namely, Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch Ratings -- have recently come under fire for issuing unjustifiably high ratings on mortgage-backed securities and for failing to lower those ratings once the securities started to perform poorly in the marketplace. [read post]
21 Nov 2009, 10:01 am by Harold O'Grady
A NY Times article, Ohio Sues Rating Firms for Losses in Funds, reports that the Ohio attorney general has filed suit against the three major rating agencies, Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poor's and Fitch, to recoup losses on its state retirement fund. [read post]
5 Feb 2013, 10:20 am by Securites Lawprof
Department of Justice filed a complaint against Standard & Poor's Financial Services and its parent company McGraw-Hill Companies, alleging civil fraud in connection with S&P credit ratings issued from 2004-2007 for residential mortgaged backed... [read post]
30 Sep 2011, 10:44 pm
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has received a Wells Notice from the Securities and Exchange Commission notifying the credit rating agency that it ma be subject to possible enforcement action over alleged violations of federal securities laws. [read post]
6 Jun 2008, 8:28 pm
Wall Street's top three credit ratings agencies -- Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service, and Fitch Ratings -- finalized an agreement yesterday with New York Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, which is designed to improve transparency in the mortgage-backed securities industry. [read post]
18 Mar 2008, 6:35 am
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services gave Sabine Pass LNG LP a "BB" credit rating, coupled with a stable outlook, in its annual review. [read post]
10 Sep 2009, 1:32 pm
The class order relief permits issuers to cite credit ratings from Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investor Service and Fitch Ratings in a prospectus or PDS without the consent of credit rating agencies themselves. [read post]
2 Apr 2009, 9:56 am
Standard & Poor's Rating Services has announced it will no longer rate J.G. [read post]
5 Aug 2011, 4:27 pm by Sabrina
News release [snipped]: "Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today that it lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the... [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 7:47 pm
Ray Groves as Ombudsman for its Standard & Poor's (S&P) unit. [read post]
5 Dec 2008, 9:04 pm
Some critics contend the big three credit-rating agencies (Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, and Fitch) bear significant blame for the current economic crisis because they over-rated what turned out to be risky subprime mortgage investments. [read post]
4 May 2009, 7:12 am
Standard & Poors President, Deven Sharma, says it is the perception of the value of its services. [read post]
8 Aug 2011, 10:00 pm by Stu Ellis
The decline in the commodity and equity markets, following the downgrade of the US credit rating last Friday by Standard and Poor’s will certainly affect agriculture. [read post]
21 Apr 2011, 4:20 am by Glenn Reynolds
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services cut its outlooks on Fannie Mae (FNMA), Freddie Mac (FMCC), the Federal Home Loan Bank system and the Farm Credit System in correlation with its recent move of lowering its outlook on U.S. debt. [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 1:30 pm by Nathan Koppel
McGraw-Hill announced today that it had received a notification, known as a Wells Notice, that the SEC is weighing action against its Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services unit related to its ratings for a collateralized debt obligation dating to the financial crisis, WSJ reports. [read post]
9 Sep 2009, 10:22 pm
Best & Co., Moody's Investor Service, Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings services. [read post]
24 Sep 2007, 12:35 am
Standard & Poor's (S & P), Fitch Ratings Inc., and Moody's Investors Service have all been contacted by the SEC and questioned about their procedures and policies on rating collateral debt obligations (CDOs) and residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). [read post]
8 Dec 2013, 12:34 pm by James Hamilton
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the direct  regulator of credit rating agencies in the European Union, has identified a number of deficiencies in the processes for producing and issuing sovereign ratings at the three largest rating agencies, Fitch Ratings, Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s. [read post]