Moody's Investors Service

• Morgan Stanley, Ratings Groups Face Fraud Claims on Subprime

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  September 3, 2009

  In the New York case, the plaintiffs claim Morgan Stanley wrongly marketed Cheyne as a high-quality investment, and that the rating agencies assigned improperly high ratings.

• Moody's Lowers Countrywide Debt Rating

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  August 16, 2007

  Two days after the largest provider of home mortgages in the U.S., Countrywide Financial, announced that a full 1% of its home loans were in foreclosure, the company got more bad news on August 16 from a ratings agency. Moody's Investors Service downgraded the senior debt ratings of Countrywide Financial...

• Dealers Must Tighten Terms to Hedge Funds

  By Staff Writer  |  May 22, 2006

  NEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)--Major dealers should take a cold, hard look at financing conditions and margin practices for hedge funds, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York warned at a conference Tuesday. Timothy Geithner said most of the growth in credit derivatives has come in auspicious economic conditions...