This paper takes a look at two areas where the subprime crisis has triggered debate and is paving the way for possible movement towards greater global regulation: international banking supervision and the role of credit rating agencies. It surveys the varied range of opinions on the role that...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked whether credit rating agencies (CRA) committed fraud by misleading investors with respect to the default risk on mortgage backed securities (MBS). This paper argues that, to the detriment of investors, the CRA did not incorporate information...

This book chapter explores how the three largest rating agencies, Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investor Service and Fitch Ratings, exploited their privileged regulatory status to profit from the booming subprime mortgage market at the expense of homeowners. These rating agencies boosted their own...

With the exception of the investment banks, there probably has been no other financial actor with as great a hand in causing the financial crisis as the major credit rating agencies (CRAs). CRAs gave mortgage backed securities (MBSs) inflated credit ratings, enabling financial institutions to...

Durch den volatilen Kredit- und Finanzmarkt der letzten Jahre und die fehlenden Regelungen zu seiner Neuordnung ist dies das erste Buch, das sich mit den Auswirkungen der Krise was Modellierung, Märkte und Regulierung betrifft, beschäftigt.

This chapter explains how the main types of credit derivatives work and how they are valued. Central to the valuation of credit derivatives is an estimation of the probability that reference entities will default. The chapter discusses both the risk-neutral probabilities of default implied from...

pt. 1. Expert views -- pt. 2. Credit derivatives : methods -- pt. 3. Credit derivatives : products -- pt. 4. Counterparty risk pricing and credit valuation adjustment -- pt. 5. Equity to credit -- pt. 6. Miscellanea : liquidity, ratings, risk contributions, and simulation.