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The civil liability of credit rating agencies in South African law: recent developments in comparative perspective
Includes bibliographical references
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Department of Commercial Law
2014
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/9155 The civil liability of credit rating agencies in South African law: recent developments in comparative perspective Thompson, Simon Jooste, Richard Includes bibliographical references The losses caused by the on-going financial crisis now exceed $4 trillion. This is in addition to the associated social and economic costs that are more difficult to measure. From a litigator’s perspective it is not surprising that these massive losses have triggered a very large number of civil claims. In the immediate aftermath of the crisis these claims were mostly run-of-the-mill misrepresentation actions by investors against their investment advisors, but there is now a clear, global trend where plaintiffs are casting their nets more widely and going after the financial actors allegedly responsible for the crisis itself. One class of defendants who fit squarely in this category are credit rating agencies. These financial actors are facing a global push by lawmakers to regulate their operations with, inter alia, the express aim of setting parameters for the liability ratings agencies should incur in the publication of ratings. 2014-11-05T03:53:46Z 2014-11-05T03:53:46Z 2013 Master Thesis Masters LLM http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9155 eng application/pdf Department of Commercial Law Faculty of Law University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Thompson, Simon The civil liability of credit rating agencies in South African law: recent developments in comparative perspective |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | The civil liability of credit rating agencies in South African law: recent developments in comparative perspective |
| title_full | The civil liability of credit rating agencies in South African law: recent developments in comparative perspective |
| title_fullStr | The civil liability of credit rating agencies in South African law: recent developments in comparative perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | The civil liability of credit rating agencies in South African law: recent developments in comparative perspective |
| title_short | The civil liability of credit rating agencies in South African law: recent developments in comparative perspective |
| title_sort | civil liability of credit rating agencies in south african law recent developments in comparative perspective |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9155 |
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