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Topic: Credit Ratings

  
Jesper Anderson

FreeRisk: Crowdsourcing Credit Ratings?

Can an open source approach reinvent the business of analyzing risk?READ»

Moody's Mega Math Challenge: Wall Street's Strategic Philanthropy
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Moody's Mega Math Challenge: Wall Street's Strategic Philanthropy

"Want to know if the stimulus act will work or whether ethanol is the right choice for U.S. energy independence? Need advice on how to beat Wall Street?" So asked the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) at the annual ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Moody's and Kiva at CGI: Rating Credit Risks for a Hand in the Future of Micro-lending Banks

While it's a thrill for me to help engage companies in strategic philanthropy, corporate social responsibility (CSR), skilled volunteering, and other forms of giving and service, I've always believed that corporate initiatives are ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

The End of the Financial World as We Know It

By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN AMERICANS enter the New Year in a strange new role: financial lunatics. We’ve been viewed by the wider world with mistrust and suspicion on other matters, but on the subject of money even our ...READ»

Investors Running Out Of Places To Hide

"Bill Walsh, Chief Executive of Hennion & Walsh, an investment-services company, said the modest improvement in bond prices--which lowers yields--was a flight to safety spurred by data released Wednesday showing that the U.S. job market weakened October."READ»

Dambisa Moyo

Bono, Beware: Dambisa Moyo on Aid, Microfinance, and the Problem of Celebs in Africa

The Zambian economist and author of the new book "Dead Aid" explains her beef with the U2 frontman, her love for the Chinese, and her high hopes for her home continent.READ»

If You Don't Have a Credit Rating..

Of recent years, it seems you don't have a chance to establish yourself in business unless you have a lot of family members and they are willing to chip in $5 - $10 each to help you get up & running.  Or even, ...READ»

ILYA BODNER   |  Comment

PERSONAL VS. BUSINESS CREDIT

            Just like you a company has a credit score. Your score is your personal credit score why the company acquires a business credit score.  There is no need to intermingle the two, and with proper development a ...READ»

Factors to Consider in Car Insurance Rates

Heard a neighbor got a great car insurance rate and thinking of jumping to that insurance company to save money?READ»

The Buffet Put

Señor, señor, can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon? Seems like I been down this way before. Is there any truth in that, señor? Bob Dylan -- Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power) OK, so I ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

How to Repair a Broken Financial World

By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN Continued from "The End of the Financial World As We Know It" Mr. Paulson must have had some reason for doing what he did. No doubt he still believes that without all this frantic activity ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Three Business Choices to Grow Your Company By - Today

This is not an ocean. The tide is not out. Not every ship is sinking. It seems everywhere I go people are captivated by what CNBC has to report, minute by minute, tick by tick, wondering when their 401-Ks might hit rock ...READ»

The Digital Debutants' Ball

Inside PC Forum, a posh coming-out party where fresh young startups flirt with the industry's rich and famous. Who will grab the golden ring -- and who will go home broken-hearted?READ»

ILYA BODNER   |  Comment

NO LOANS WHEN YOU NEED THEM

            Have you heard the saying "A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain?”              Consider the ideal scenario for ...READ»