An empirical study was conducted to determine the impact of different types of risk on the performance management of credit rating agencies (CRAs). The different types of risks were classified as operational, market, business, financial, and credit. All these five variables were analysed to...

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Revision of the Standardised Approach for Credit Risk -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 General aspects -- 1.3 Use of external ratings -- 1.4 Credit risk mitigation techniques -- 1.5 Conclusions -- Recommended Literature -- Notes -- 2 The...

The recent Global Financial Crisis has focused our attention on the integrity of rating agencies. Often condemned for being too slow to act, rating agencies have been blamed during many financial crises. This impression opens some research questions addressed in this paper. What are the...