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Carl Levin: “Whenever S&P made a criteria change to its RMBS model and that change was more conservative than the previous model, did…”

On the recordApril 22, 2010
Whenever S&P made a criteria change to its RMBS model and that change was more conservative than the previous model, did S&P retest the old deals to see if their structure still passed for rating purposes?
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan

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Senator Levin questions S&P's practices regarding model changes and retesting.

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