Sunday, October 23, 2011

Talk About Killing the Messenger: More Challenges for the Ratings Agencies


European Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier is considering a move to ban the agencies from publishing outlook reports on EU countries entangled in a crisis.

In an internal draft of a reform to an EU law applying to ratings agencies obtained by the paper, Barnier proposes providing the new EU securities authority, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), with the right to "temporarily prohibit" the publication of forecasts of a country's liquidity.


http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,792970,00.html#ref=rss

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