First, banks still have few reliable means of checking borrowers creditworthiness, including previous loans from other banks.

To avert a repetition, securities held by banks must carry a much higher risk rating than they currently do.

Rating the Raters

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To enhance credibility, a number of governments are gingerly moving towards creating fiscal councils with greater independence, often with central banks as a role model.

This week Standard Poor's, the rating agency, cited increasing household leverage, mainly from rising mortgages, as a risk factor for Asian banks creditworthiness.

Her political rating is sturdy, too.

Even the US lost its AAA standing.

His ratings have dipped below 50 for the first time.

In April 2009, G20 leaders approved a quadrupling of the Fund s lending capacity.

That is evident from their credit ratings.

Sooner or later, Putin s approval rating will plummet.

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And it is the ECB s credibility problem, not that of member states, that is the principal reason for unsustainably high borrowing costs in Italy, Spain, and other distressed eurozone countries.

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Poor s raised its credit rating to investment grade.

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In the US, the approval rating of Congress is at a record low of 14 .

One can find a ranking for almost every form of human activity.

In other words, there is no basis to claim that Putin s approval rating is declining.

The ranking metric we used belongs to Yandex, which describes its methodology as follows

He has been rated as high as 2709 (in the January 2013 list).

The reaction among national politicians, central banks, and banks themselves was not universally favorable.

Lenders (the bankers) are suspicious, worried about creditworthiness, and demand high risk premia.

A second problem for regulators, supervisors, and, indeed, credit rating agencies was scarce resources.

Ten universities in China and Hong Kong are ranked higher.

But to make ratings work, the raters need to be rated.

Poor s has put the already low A rating under review for a possible downgrade.

This is why rating will continue to exist on the Web site of Artemy Lebedev's Studio...

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The market share of state owned banks is 85 .

Central bankers or markets?

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And, with approval ratings in the single digits, there s nowhere to go but up.

Poor s lowered its rating on long term US debt from AAA to AA .

The review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 73 approval rating, based on 41 reviews.

But, although the United States and some European countries have gone a long way toward restoring the lending capacity of banks, that may not be enough.

A second possibility is that banks worry about having enough resources to meet their own creditors demands if they lock up funds in long term loans. But the many central bank lending facilities that have been opened around the world should assuage these concerns, especially for large and well capitalized banks.

The bailout of banks led to a wave of mergers.