Financial Regulatory Reform: A New Foundation
Moreover, all national authorities should enforce compliance with their oversight regime
to promote adequate practices and procedures for managing conflicts of interest in CRAs
and to maintain the transparency and quality of the ratings process. The G-20 Leaders
also called for the CRAs to differentiate ratings for structured products and provide full
disclosure on performance measures and ratings methodologies.
The U.S. regulatory regime for CRAs is consistent with IOSCO’s Code of Conduct for
CRAs. Moreover, Treasury proposed, consistent with the G-20’s recommendations, that
the SEC continue its efforts to tighten the regulation of CRAs along a number of
dimensions, including through public disclosures of performance measures and
methodologies and better differentiation of structured credit from other credit products.
Given the important role played by CRAs in our financial markets, the United States will
continue to work with our international counterparts to promote consistency of national
oversight regimes across jurisdictions and that national authorities engage in appropriate
information sharing, as called for by the G-20 Leaders.
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