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Moody's 2024
Applied to Moody's for 2024, but didn’t know too much about comp, actual job, and what it would look like.
Credit Ratings Agency Interview
Hi everyone, just got an interview for an internship at a Big 3 CRA in London next week. I guess that they would ask me something on financial statements and credit analysis . Does anyone have any advice on how to prepare or have relative experience for this interview?
Moody's Structured Finance
Hi, I was recently contacted by a recruiter regarding a job in this group, does anybody had an idea how the interview is setup, are there any tests or anything else that should be considered?
Common Identifier Between S&P and Moody's Excel Plugins?
I am working on a dashboard and was curious if anyone knows of any successful way to bridge between the two with a common identifier? I have had modest success with pulling ISIN from CapIQ then truncating it down to get the CUSIP-6 that Moody's uses as an identifier in their formulas... However, I...
Exit opportunities for Rating analyst position in Insurance at the top 3 CRA (Credit Rating Agencies) in Europe
Hi, I am wondering about the possible exit opportunities after working as a rating analyst for Big 3 CRA in the Insurance practice in Europe. One obvious change is going directly to work for the insurance company. Which positions at the insurance companies could be the most attractive? Are there any...
Advice Moody's Associate Analyst 3 Interview
Hey everyone, I was hoping someone could give me some advice/insight into interview process for Moody's Associate Analyst 3. I was reading reviews on glass door and they were talking about math,writing and finance tests... If anyone has any experience/suggestions with this or knows some specific...
Moody's Analytics
I have been offered a summer research intern at Moody's. Should I take it? What do you guys think about working at Moody's in general?
Big 4 tech consulting or Credit Rating Agency (structured products) for future MBA?
Hi WSO , I'm a senior at a state school with a decent reputation. I have a 3.6 GPA in accounting and management information systems. My previous internship experience is in back office strategy at GS and at a large Fortune 500 company. I currently have offers from a big 4 and a CRA. At the Big 4...
Credit Ratings Agency Interviews
Hello, I have an interview with one of the Big 3 credit ratings agencies soon for an entry-level position, and am wondering exactly what type of questions I could expect. Can anyone help with this?
Moody's exploding offer over ER??
Hi everyone,
Moody's HK CFG Recruitment
Does anybody know what's going on with Moody's CFG in HK office? I applied online 3 weeks ago and still haven't heard anything from them so far. Firstly, it appears that their openings at CFG are ranging from VPs to junior AA, as well as the "coffee boy". In addition, their recruitment process at...
Moody's Downgrades France to Aa1
Morning Monkeys, Moody's has recently downgraded France from AAA to Aa1, following action taken by S&P earlier this year. My personal favorite ratings agency, Egan Jones, has long since had France at just north of "crap junk" at BBB+. Gotta love the little guy. ZeroHedge has a pretty good recap....
Matt Taibbi's latest in Rolling Stone
On June 19, Matt Taibbi published an article called The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis (link below), expounding on the role of rating agencies in the 2008 financial crisis. [quote]"Please note that in relation to assumed spread [volatility] for the Aa and A there is no actual data backing up...
Moody's Downgrades Banks
As was long foreshadowed, Moody’s rating service has cut the ratings of just about every large U.S. banking firm last Thursday. Although the banks opened lower to start off the week, the share prices were relatively stable during the days of the Moody’s announcement. Primarily because the...
Moody's Structured Finance Analyst vs Citi Private Bank Analyst
The Moody's role is an entry-level analyst position, which involving working in a team that rates a particular structured finance product (I won't know until months after I accept which group I would be in). The Citi Private Banking role is a 2-year rotational program that has six-month rotations in...
Harrington's Moody
The eternally lost villain in the background of the financial crisis movie have been the rating agencies. While Wall Street is vilified and the government continues its eternal ineptitude in comprehending and dealing with financial markets, rating agencies have gotten a free pass. For eleven years...
Will Moody's downgrade the US?
Hey, we all knew it was just a matter of time . Right on the heels of the Ben Bernank quashing the Dollar, Moody’s placed the US on review for a possible downgrade, citing the current asshattery on the debt ceiling debates as their main concern: [quote=Moody's]The review of the US government's...
Portuguese Junk
Regrettably, this is not a paid advertisement for Brazilian sex vacations. It is another reminder of why the first letter in PIIGS is P. The abrupt four notch Jack the Ripper-ing of Portuguese debt by Moody’s is yet another sign of the collective global financial machinery finally getting serious...
DDD: The New Credit Rating
As an amateur academic, I have spent a lot of time pondering the root causes of the credit crisis which precipitated America's long expected (though easily preventable) fall from economic grace. There were certainly many culprits and a few hand picked scapegoats. Sadly, the majority of the former...
Moody's Interview
Hey guys, I have an interview with Moody's corporate finance Ratings soon . Can you give me some reasons Moody's is better than their competitors Standard & Poor's and Fitch Group? Thanks!
Our very own Den of Thieves
Den of Thieves is required reading from Wall Street Lit 101. Over the years, the term has become synonymous with the greed and villainy Wall Street either inspires in or extracts from people (depending on your perspective). A new den of thieves has emerged on the American landscape, however. It is a...
Does Moody's pay that poorly.....?
Am about about to get an offer from Moody's, and just want to have an idea of what I should expect in salary negotiations. The position is on their analytics (non-ratings) side... I'm working in consulting after graduating from a top-5 b-school in 2010.
Moody's AC
Hi guys, I am new here. Was just wondering if anyone ever had an assessment centre with moody's and knows what they are all about? It's in the London office for a sub-sovereign role. I know I'll have an interview plus two exercises. One will be an excel exercise the other more of a reading exercise....
How many "buy-side" investment clients would pay between $20,000 to $40,000 service fees for big 3 credit rating agency - Moody'
Hello, I am doing research on the credit rating industry. There is much controversy among Credit rating agency's business model post sub-prime. The issuer pay model clearly has serious conflict of interests. Beside income from debt issuers, does anyone know roughly how many investment clients (e.g....
Moody's/S&P corporate finance
What is the typical career progression for people working in a corporate finance role within Moody's or S&P? What are the exit opps like? Are there certain coverage groups that are better than others?
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