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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10394

9 June 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) ep/finances
Ratings agencies, preventing conflicts of interest

Strasbourg, 08/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - MEPs believe that steps must be taken to limit the risks of conflicts of interest inherent to the financial ratings market, which is essentially based on a model in which the rated entity pays the ratings agency. Without wishing to impose “an unjustified model”, they call on the European Commission to propose “viable alternative payment models involving issuers and users”, paying particular attention to a model whereby the investor which uses...

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