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The Securities and Exchange Commission exempts "nationally recognized statistical rating organizations" from registration as investment advisers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agency

Rating Agency

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http://www.omg.org/spec/EDMC-FIBO/IND/Indicators/Indicators/FinancialInformationPublisher

A credit rating agency (CRA, also called a ratings service) is a company that assigns credit ratings, which rate a debtor's ability to pay back debt by making timely interest payments and the likelihood of default. An agency may rate the creditworthiness of issuers of debt obligations, of debt instruments, and in some cases, of the servicers of the underlying debt, but not of individual consumers.

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