Moody’s will likely downgrade some of the credit ratingsof 17 global and 114 European financial institutions, but the downgrades likely will not result in a worse-case scenario, one analyst told CNBC.
Jeffery Harte, a bank analyst at Sandler O’Neill, said Moody's warning on Thursday did not include "a lot of new news" since the market has been worried about regulation and a weak capital markets environment for a while now.
“The real question, though, is not what are the risks — they have been clearly identified and are well known,” Harte said. “It's how can a company like Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley manage those risks? And I think that's where we may not see as big of a downgrade as some of the reports are suggesting because I think they’re getting pretty good at managing some of those risks.”