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EU-based credit rating agency buried
EU Observer ^ | 05/01/2013 @ 09:25 | Nikolaj Nielsen

Posted on 05/01/2013 12:12:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Plans to launch an independent European credit agency have fallen apart after it failed to generate enough interest in the business world.

After three years of efforts, its co-founder renounced the plans, in an interview with the German daily Handelsblatt on Tuesday (30 April). “There were not enough investors,” Markus Krull, a former senior partner in the German-based consultancy firm Roland Berger, told the daily in an interview. …

Krull envisioned an agency that would compete with the US-based equivalent Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch. All three US-based agencies work on a for-profit basis that Krull wanted to challenge with an agency based on a foundation model. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: creditrating; eussr; ratingsagency; rolandberger

1 posted on 05/01/2013 12:12:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

They don’t want anyone telling the truth.


2 posted on 05/01/2013 12:27:36 PM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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