The story of Standard & Poor’s
U.S. credit rating agency; in 2004 to 2007 a division of McGraw-Hill, later McGraw Hill Financial.
Standard & Poor’s. U.S. credit rating agency; in 2004 to 2007 a division of McGraw-Hill, later McGraw Hill Financial.
1975 –
Standard & Poor’s, member of Nationally recognized statistical rating organizations. Rating organization.
22 Oct 2008
Deven Sharma, head of Standard & Poor’s. President.
Feb 2013
Standard & Poor’s, charged by the U.S. Department of Justice. Civil suit alleging a scheme to defraud investors in RMBS and CDOs.
A charge is an accusation, not a finding of guilt.
3 Feb 2015
Standard & Poor’s settled with the U.S. Department of Justice. $1.4B, agreed statement of facts; S&P says the settlement contains no findings of violations of law.
Standard & Poor’s adopted Issuer-pays model.
9 sourced connections, each with its evidence. Open the explorer to follow any of them further, filter by lens, or move through time.
Drawn from the sourced links on Standard & Poor’s. Change a link and this story changes with it.
Pictures, from Wikimedia Commons: U.S. Department of Justice, APK, CC BY 4.0.
