Spotlight on
Credit Rating Agencies

• Chairman William H. Donaldson: Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, re: Concerning the State of the Securities Industry (March 9, 2005)
   
• Concept Release: Rating Agencies and the Use of Credit Ratings Under the Federal Securities Laws (June 4, 2003)
   
• Letter to The Honorable Richard H. Baker, Chairman, Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, U.S. House of Representatives, on Issues Relating to Rating Agencies (June 4, 2003)
   
• Testimony Concerning Rating the Rating Agencies: The State of Transparency and Competition, by Annette L. Nazareth, Director, Division of Market Regulation (April 2, 2003)
   
• Letter Recognizing Dominion Bond Rating Service Limited as a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (February 24, 2003)
   
• Report on the Role and Function of Credit Rating Agencies in the Operation of the Securities Markets (Special Study, January 24, 2003)
   
• Credit Rating Agency Hearing Transcript, November 21, 2002
   
• Credit Rating Agency Hearing Transcript, November 15, 2002
   
• Participants and Comments, November 15 and November 21, 2002
   
• Credit Hearings Webcasts (archives)
   
• Hearings Schedule, November 15 and November 21, 2002
   
• Initial Announcement, November 4, 2002 (Press Release)
   

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