China may Establish Credit-Rating Agencies!

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By Bloomberg News - Dec 25, 2011


China should reduce its reliance on overseas rating companies by encouraging large financial institutions to strengthen their research and make their own judgments, central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said.

The nation is also considering establishing credit-rating companies backed by the government, Zhou said at a financial forum in Beijing today. A copy of his speech transcript was posted on financial news portal hexun.com.

Zhou's remarks reflect China's desire to seek alternatives to the top-three global rating companies amid skepticism among officials about the firms' independence. The nation set up its first rating company that makes investors rather than borrowers pay, called China Credit Rating Co., in September last year.

"With the rapid expansion in China's bond market, we need rating companies that are familiar with the Chinese situation," said Lu Zhengwei, Shanghai-based chief economist at Industrial Bank Co., who was rated the nation's best analyst in 2010 by China Business News newspaper. "We see comments from rating companies during this round of the crisis have influenced the financial market to a large degree. It's no surprise China is paying attention to them."

'Beneficial Alliance'

Overseas rating companies' earnings models cause "a strong beneficial alliance between the issuer and the ratings agency that cannot avoid influencing the agency's independence," said the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors in a draft report seen by Bloomberg News last July. The association was formed by the central bank in 2007 to help develop the country's over-the-counter financial markets.

One possibility for nurturing local rating companies is to require that a domestic firm also rate a local financial product if one of the international companies does so, said Zhou, the governor of People's Bank of China. Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings are the three biggest rating companies.

Domestic rating firms can play a larger role by researching the finances of local or municipal government, an area in which foreign companies lack expertise, Zhou said.

The State Council, China's cabinet, has designated the central bank to regulate the country's credit-rating companies, making it the sole regulator of the industry, local media reported last week.


China May Establish Credit-Rating Companies - Bloomberg
 
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there's already one - Dagong
Dagong

Nowadays nobody believes S&P or Fitch are really "neutral" or "objective" or "independent"
 

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Oh, great. Another country I'll be blacklisted in.
 

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What, did you make a sizeable profit at the expense of somebody? Teach me some of your financial chicanery please. :D
 

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What, did you make a sizeable profit at the expense of somebody? Teach me some of your financial chicanery please. :D
Maxing out credit cards isn't chicanery, it's stupidity. :-(
 

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A Chinese credit agency would be the new Chinese wonder weapon. No it will not sink an aircraft carrier but it will sink an economy. This will be economic sabotage of hydrogen bomb proportions. The CCP must be itching to get its fingers into the trigger of this new device... Only problem for them is that nobody will listen at the explosion... :pound:
 

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A Chinese credit agency would be the new Chinese wonder weapon. No it will not sink an aircraft carrier but it will sink an economy. This will be economic sabotage of hydrogen bomb proportions. The CCP must be itching to get its fingers into the trigger of this new device... Only problem for them is that nobody will listen at the explosion... :pound:
Then you have nothing to worry about, right?:confused:
 

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If I may question, is this for major institutional creditors and debtors or is it for individuals?

Institutional, in US:



Individual, US:

 
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If I may question, is this for major institutional creditor and debtors or is it for individuals?

Institutional, in US:



Individual, US:

Most likely institution based.
"Zhou's remarks reflect China's desire to seek alternatives to the top-three global rating companies amid skepticism among officials about the firms' independence"
 

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Most likely institution based.
"Zhou's remarks reflect China's desire to seek alternatives to the top-three global rating companies amid skepticism among officials about the firms' independence"

Part of the geopolitical challenge of China. But a credit rating agency made by the Government or regulated by the Government? Looks like a potential WMD...:scared1:
 

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Browsing on the homepage of Dagong Global Credit Raing I find this
Dagong downgrades the sovereign credit rating of the Republic of France Dagong

It at least provide discreet advice for Chinese investment abroad for her huge foreign reserve :p
 

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