Commission Hearings — Nov. 15 and 21, 2002

• Press Release (Nov. 4, 2002)
• Hearings Schedule
• Participants and Comments
• Nov. 15 Hearing Transcript
• Nov. 21 Hearing Transcript
• Hearings Webcast

Office Announcements

• XBRL Taxonomy Update for Disclosure of Credit Rating Histories (Apr. 29, 2015)

Press Releases

• SEC Publishes Annual Staff Report on Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (Feb. 16, 2024)
• SEC Publishes Annual Staff Report on Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (Feb. 2, 2023)
• Lori H. Price Named Director of Office of Credit Ratings (Aug. 12, 2022)
• SEC Proposes Amendments to Remove References to Credit Ratings from Regulation M (Mar. 23, 2022)
• Lori H. Price Named Acting Director of the Office of Credit Ratings; Ahmed Abonamah to Leave SEC (Feb. 1, 2022)
• Ahmed Abonamah Named Director of Office of Credit Ratings (Nov. 8, 2021)
• SEC Charges Credit Ratings Analyst and Two Friends With Insider Trading
• SEC Names Jessica Kane Director of Office of Credit Ratings (May 7, 2018)
• Annual Staff Reports on Credit Rating Agencies Show Improvements (Dec. 29, 2017)
• SEC Issues Annual Staff Report on Credit Rating Agencies (Dec. 21, 2016)
• SEC Issues Annual Staff Reports on Credit Rating Agencies (Dec. 28, 2015)
• Smeeta Ramarathnam Named Deputy Director in the Office of Credit Ratings (Sept. 8, 2015)
• SEC Issues Annual Staff Reports on Credit Rating Agencies (Dec. 23, 2014)
• SEC Names Thomas Butler as Director of New Office of Credit Ratings (June 15, 2012)
• SEC Proposes Rules to Increase Transparency and Improve Integrity of Credit Ratings (May 18, 2011)
• SEC Votes on Measures to Further Strengthen Oversight of Credit Rating Agencies (Sept. 17, 2009); see also Fact Sheet About Credit Rating Agencies and Rules and Forms at Issue in Removal of References to NRSRO Credit Ratings
• SEC Approves Measures to Strengthen Oversight of Credit Rating Agencies (Dec. 3, 2008); see also NRSRO Fact Sheet
• Seven Credit Rating Agencies Register with SEC as Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (Sept. 24, 2007)
• Credit Rating Agencies Apply for Registration as Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (June 28, 2007)

Roundtables

• May 14, 2013 Roundtable
• April 13, 2009 Roundtable

Testimony

• Thomas J. Butler, Director, Office of Credit Ratings, et al., Before The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises (April 21, 2016)
• John Ramsay, Deputy Director, Division of Trading and Markets, Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Financial Services, re: Oversight of the Credit Rating Agencies Post-Dodd-Frank (July 27, 2011)
• Daniel M. Gallagher, Co-Acting Director, Division of Trading and Markets, Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services and Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government-Sponsored Enterprises, re: Events Surrounding Bank of America’s Acquisition of Merrill Lynch (Sept. 30, 2009)
• United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Before the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Written Testimony Concerning SEC Oversight of Credit Rating Agencies (August 5, 2009)
• Chairman Christopher Cox, Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, re: Oversight of Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (April 22, 2008)
• Chairman Christopher Cox, Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, re: the Role and Impact of Credit Rating Agencies on the Subprime Credit Markets (Sept. 26, 2007)
• Annette L. Nazareth, Director, Division of Market Regulation, Before the House Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, Committee on Financial Services, re: Credit Rating Agencies (April 12, 2005)
• Annette L. Nazareth, Director, Division of Market Regulation, Before the House Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, Committee on Financial Services, re: Rating the Rating Agencies: The State of Transparency and Competition (April 2, 2003)
• Letter to The Honorable Richard H. Baker, Chairman, Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, U.S. House of Representatives (June 4, 2003)
• Commissioner Isaac C. Hunt, Jr., Before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, re: The Role of Rating Credit Rating Agencies in the US Securities Markets (March 20, 2002)