US ratings agencies like ‘bulls in a china shop’

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US ratings agencies like ‘bulls in a china shop’

The ratings of Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch fail to accurately reflect the post-crisis reality in bank debt, Scope Ratings’ managing director of financial institutions Sam Theodore has told EuroWeek Bank Finance, as the small German agency looks to take on the US big guns.

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