With all the best intentions in mind, the rating process does include some subjective judgments.
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If prosecutors continue to focus on how the rating process works, they may allow Washingtonians to celebrate downgrade payback, but they won't serve investors or taxpayers.
Each university will have an incentive to run an efficient and professional rating process, providing a real-world training lab for undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of backgrounds (economics, computer engineering, political science, law, finance).
If participants were asked about their participation as part of the rating process, they were about 1.5 times more likely to admit an ethical misstep than if they were simply asked point blank as a separate question.
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Last week, the Fitch agency also cut Spain's rating, a process that can raise a country's borrowing costs.
It also sets the Fed in conflict with the SEC, which introduced reforms in 2006 to promote competition by speeding up the approval process for rating agencies.
Finally the committee looked at the scrutiny process for the Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Bill.
When the time comes to reverse that process, your favorable credit rating in the past looks more like a curse than an advantage.
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TruSolar is working to standardize risk assessment and develop scores for each solar project that would be similar to a credit rating, thereby streamlining the entire development and financing process.
Separately, the city and the United Federation of Teachers said they agreed on a process for teachers to contest a poor rating, which had been a major sticking point in talks.
The guidelines make the evaluation process almost a purely subjective exercise that allows the rating agency to make pretty much any call they wish.
Robyn Karnauskas, a biotechnology analyst at Deutsche Bank who has a buy rating on Dendreon shares, argued in her initiation note earlier this month that the Medicare process could be much faster than investors expect.
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