05/14/10
A source close to
the investigation today called it
a "troubling relationship,"
a clear case of
"hear no evil, see no evil"
between the banks
and the agencies
that are supposed to rate them,
protecting investors
from bad products.
Now New York's attorney general
wants to know:
Were those banks and
the ratings agencies,
in some ways, in on it together?
The investigation takes aim at
eight major banks,
Goldman, Morgan Stanley, UBS,
Citigroup among them.
All of them, during
the red-hot mortgage market,
sold bundled mortgages
to investors
and those bundles
with the highest ratings
fetching the highest price.
ABC News has learned that
the AG is now investigating
whether some of those banks
tried to manipulate the ratings
by hiring people away from
the ratings agencies
to come over to the bank.
捜査に近い筋によると―
典型的な
“見ざる 聞かざる”のケース
金融機関とその格付けを行う機関の
関係が問題だ。
ニューヨーク州司法長官は両者が
結託していたのではと疑っている。
捜査対象はシティグループなど
大手金融機関8社だ。
以 前 販売した
住宅ローン関連の金融商品が―
格付けが高いほど高値で売れていた。
州司法長官は金融機関が―
格付け機関の元職員を雇って
情報操作を行ったと疑っている。
