IKB shows state support is unpredictable

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IKB shows state support is unpredictable

The German government-coordinated bail-out of IKB proves that Moody’s was right to make implicit state support a pillar of bank ratings. Right? Wrong. The debacle shows that rating agencies can only guess what might happen.

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