Comments on SEC Proposed Rules and Oversight of NRSROs
TSF – February 13, 2007
By Janet Tavakoli


The above link is to comments by Janet Tavakoli, president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, on the 2007 SEC Proposed Rules for NRSROs posted on the SEC’s web site: www.sec.gov under Regulatory Actions / Proposed Rules / Oversight of Credit Rating Agencies. She asserts that the NRSRO designation for the rating agencies should be revoked for structured financial products.

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Janet Tavakoli is the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, a Chicago-based firm that provides consulting to financial institutions and institutional investors. Ms. Tavakoli has more than 20 years of experience in senior investment banking positions, trading, structuring and marketing structured financial products. She is a former adjunct professor of derivatives at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. She is the author of: Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures (John Wiley & Sons, 1998, 2001), Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (John Wiley & Sons, 2008).

Janet Tavakoli's book on the global financial meltdown is Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street (Wiley 2009)


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