Moody’s Concedes Failures in Market’s Implosion, Outlines Changes to Improve its Rating Process
June 4, 2010
It was the rating services’ turn – and Moody’s Investors Service in particular – to feel the wrath of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a bipartisan government panel charged with figuring out what went wrong in the financial market meltdown of 2008. “To be blunt, the picture is not pretty,” said FCIC Chairman Phil Angelides. “From 1998 to 2007, Moody’s revenues...