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The Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has to paid nearly 1.4 billion dollars to the US authorities to settle a legal claim that it knowingly inflated its ratings of mortgage investments. The ratings were issued over several years on the Subprime mortgage bonds that triggered the financial crisis of 2008. The US attorney general Eric Holder said the agency’s actions have been a factor in the crisis.
“On more than one occasion, the company's leadership ignored senior analysts who warned that the company had given top ratings to financial products that were failing to perform as advertised. As S&P admits under this settlement, company executives complained that the company declined to downgrade underperforming assets; because it was worried that doing so would hurt the company's business. This strategy did major harm, major harm to the larger economy, contributing to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. US attorney general Eric Holder.
标准普尔指数评级机构必须向美国当局支付近14亿美元的官司赔偿，据悉该公司在知情的情况下夸张了抵押的评级。这些评级是几年内对引发2008金融危机的次级按揭贷款债券做出的，美国司法部长埃里克·霍尔德称该机构的行为是导致危机的一个因素。
“该公司的领导层不止一次地忽略了高级分析家的警告，即该公司给那些表现不佳的金融产品比较高的评级。正如标准普尔在此案中承认的那样，公司董事长称公司拒绝给不良资产降级，是因为担心这么做会伤害本公司的业务。这一策略对较大的公司构成了严重的损失，导致了大萧条以来最严重的金融危机。”美国司法部长埃里克·霍尔德。
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