Bad credit

Neil Hodge

While the role of the banks has been well documented in bringing about the current global credit crunch, the role of the industry that whetted the banks' appetites to invest in high-risk debt vehicles by giving them fantastic ratings

The role of a credit rating agency is to gauge the creditworthiness of organisations issuing debt instruments, such as corporate and government bonds, so that investors, banks, regulators and other ma...

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