02.03.2015
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02.03.2015
On January 21, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a settlement with a credit rating agency regarding its rating of certain commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). According to the announcement, the ratings agency agreed to pay the SEC more than $58 million to settlement the SEC’s charges, plus an additional $19 million to settle parallel cases announced by the New York Attorney General ($12 million) and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office ($7 million). The SEC alleged that the ratings agency (i) misrepresented its conduit fusion CMBS ratings methodology; (ii) published a “false and misleading article purporting to show that its new credit enhancement levels could withstand Great Depression-era levels of economic stress;” and (iii) failed to maintain and enforce internal controls regarding changes to its surveillance criteria. In a separate administrative order, the SEC instituted a litigated administrative proceeding against the former head of the agency’s CMBS Group for “fraudulently misreprent[ing] the manner in which the [ratings agency] calculated a critical aspect of certain CMBS ratings in 2011.”
Read more: SEC CMBS Order #1, #2 and #3; USA Today (SEC charges ratings agency over ratings); Forbes.com
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