Recently, there is a bit of a scandal regarding these rating agencies because they gave AAA ratings to some subprime securities.
最近，出现了一点关于评级机构的丑闻，因为他们将一些次级证券评为AAA 级。
Ratings were crucial to the distribution of mortgage securities, and therefore to the bubble.
评级是抵押证券发行的关键，从而导致了泡沫。
The rules require funds to buy high-quality securities - and to ascertain that quality through their own due diligence, rather than relying only on credit ratings.
这个规则要求基金购买高等级的证券，并且是根据自己的勤奋工作来稽查证券的质量，而不仅仅依赖于信用等级。
Even more damning is their conclusion that assets that generated greater proceeds for the ratings agency were rated more leniently than less lucrative securities.
更为致命的结论是：为评级机构带来更多收益的资产所获评级比那些无利可图的证券更为有利。
When structured products tanked during the crisis, ratings agencies defended the securities' high scores by arguing that they were too opaque to evaluate.
结果性产品在危机期间的表现极差，但评级机构辩护称，这些证券当初得分很高是因为它们不够透明，难以评估。
The deal went ahead when the Securities and Exchange Commission temporarily suspended the requirement that deal documents include such ratings.
发行计划提出之时，证券和交易委员会暂停了发行债券的评级要求。
I mean, these securities get bought and sold on the basis of a stamp that's given to them by the big three ratings agencies.
我的意思，这些证券之所以能被买来卖去，便是基于他们是被三大评级机构所认可的。
Rules governing the fixed income securities that banks and institutional investors can hold, and in what amounts, rely on credit ratings.
规定银行及机构投资者可持有以及持有多少固定收益证券的法规条例依赖于相应证券的信用评级。
A large number of these securities received the highest credit ratings, including AAA, but proved to be anything but safe.
此前一大批住房抵押贷款支持证券都获得了包括AAA的最高信用评级，虽然事实证明并非如此。
Their ratings of corporate debt may have held up well, but they were way off in structured securities, not a lot better in sovereign debt, and now their municipal-bond ratings, too, are under fire.
他们对公司债券的评级倒还好说，但是对于结构性债券就不那么上道了，主权债券也好不到哪儿去，而最近他们对于市政债券的评级又被口诛笔伐。
In theory, ratings agencies and mathematical models help investors price the risk they are taking on, even if the securities they are buying are scarcely traded.
理论上，证券评估机构和数学模型帮助投资者评价自身的风险，即使手中的股票很少进行交易。
After all, overly generous ratings awarded to newfangled mortgage-backed securities helped to spark the credit crisis.
毕竟，按揭证券的评级过于慷慨就引发了信贷危机。
Critics of the status quo say the 'issuer pay' model led to inflated ratings in the housing boom, particularly of securities backed by mortgages.
对现状持批评态度的人士说，在楼市泡沫期间，这种发债公司付费的模式导致评级注水，在抵押贷款支持证券的评级问题上尤其严重。
From January, for instance, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will directly supervise ratings agencies.
比如说，从明年1月开始，欧洲证券与市场管理局将会直接对各评级机构进行监管。
Agencies' attempt to do so just led Banks to package securities so as to obtain triple-A ratings.
评级机构试图这样做的话，只会导致银行将证券进行包装以获得3a的评级。
The Department of Justice is investigating the company for giving subprime mortgage securities top ratings just before they imploded.
美国司法部（TheDepartmentofJustice）正在对该公司就其在次级抵押贷款证券崩盘前仍给予这些证券最高评级一事展开调查。
But the agencies argue that their ratings are designed to measure the probability of default, not to recommend the purchase of individual securities or to predict market prices.
但是信贷机构争辩说他们的评级只能衡量违约率的可能性，而并不对个别的证券提出买进的建议，也不能预测市场价格。
The fund dealt only in mortgage-backed securities with top-notch credit-ratings, and not the subprime market, indicating how far the credit crisis has spread.
这家基金公司只从事具备顶尖评级的有抵押证券的交易，并未涉及次贷市场，这表明信用危机的波及面已何其深远。
But because they have such a good reputation, on the bases of ratings and other kinds of securities, people just took them as they were.
但是这些评级公司有着良好声誉，基于他们传统的评级，和对其他保险的评级，人们自然相信他们。
Recently, however, there is a bit of a scandal regarding these rating agencies because they gave AAA ratings to some subprime securities.
但是，最近，出现了一点关于评级机构的丑闻，因为他们将一些次级证券评为aaa级。
However, these parties have been much less forgiving on the ratings agencies for lack oversight on ratings for mortgage-backed securities (MBS) right before the housing bubble burst.
不论怎样，对于在住房泡沫破灭前评级机构对住房抵押贷款支持证券评级的失察，人们很难达成谅解。
They could do this only with the blessing of credit-ratings agencies, which made a profitable business out of rating these securities.
这离不开信用评级机构的“宽容”：证券评级业务让它们获利颇丰。
A key criticism is that the issuers themselves must pay the credit ratings agencies to rate their securities.
对信用评级流程抨击的一个关键点是必须由发行人付费给信用评级机构请其为自己的有价证券进行评级。
Wall Street Banks earned billions selling risky mortgage-linked securities around the world, aided by ratings agencies that branded them solid.
华尔街的银行通过全球发售高风险的按揭连结证券赚了数十亿美金，那些证券通过评级公司的帮助打上了可靠的烙印。
Fewer investors trust the judgment of ratings agencies since their tangles over mortgage-backed securities, and as a result want another outsider to evaluate risk.
自从在住房抵押贷款证券上被套牢后，很少有投资者还会继续信任评级机构的判断，他们希望有其他的外部机构加入进来评估风险。
Fewer investors trust the judgment of ratings agencies since their tangles over mortgage-backed securities, and as a result want another outsider to evaluate risk.
自从在住房抵押贷款证券上被套牢后，很少有投资者还会继续信任评级机构的判断，他们希望有其他的外部机构加入进来评估风险。
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