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In addition, it would provide them with an incentive to develop better internal credit-rating systems.
ECONOMIST: Banking regulation
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Some of the emails in the government suit do look bad, at least as presented in the lawsuit and just like a lot of the rating-agency internal emails that the SEC released in a 2008 report.
WSJ: Review & Outlook: Payback for a Downgrade?
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Regarding how MF Global treated customer funds, the subcommittee will focus on whether the rating companies looked into the futures firm's internal processes and systems.
WSJ: MF Global Probe: Congress Presses Rating Firms
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The suggested revision adds two ideas to the same basic regime: in deciding how much capital is needed, make greater use of, first, credit-rating agencies' measures of risk and, second, banks' internal risk-management models.
ECONOMIST: Economics focus