Rating Agencies Must Rethink Business Model

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If the rating agency industry is to serve investors, it must retool how it thinks about the current conflicts in the present model, according to Sean Egan, founding partner at Egan-Jones Ratings. “This latest crisis is just part of a serial failure (of rating agencies),” he told CNBC Thursday.

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