Client Alert
SEC Proposes Rules To Require Credit Ratings Disclosures
The SEC recently proposed rules that would require companies to provide credit ratings disclosures when the ratings are used in connection with a registered securities offering. The proposals respond to SEC concerns that investors need additional information to understand what credit ratings mean and what their limitations are.
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