Moody's Corporation

Moody's Corporation Names Lisa Simone Westlake Chief Human Resources Officer [Press Release]
Business Wire | 8 days 2 hours 41 minutes ago
Moody's Corporation (NYSE:MCO) today announced that Lisa Simone Westlake has been appointed Chief Human Resources Officer for the Corporation. Ms Westlake will be responsible for the global Human Resources activities of Moody's Corporation, including recruiting, compensation and benefits, training, organizational development and HR information systems.

Moody's Investors Service Appoints Structured Finance Head [Press Release]
Business Wire | 19 days 1 hour 37 minutes ago
Moody's Investors Service today named Andrew Kimball, 59, Executive Vice President and head of the company's global Structured Finance business. Mr. Kimball had been acting head of the Structured Finance Business since July of this year. Richard Cantor, 51, was appointed Chief Credit Officer of Moody's Investors Service and Chairman of its Credit Policy Committee. Mr. Cantor had assumed acting responsibility for these roles, which Mr. Kimball previously held.

Protective Issues Statement on Rating Agency Actions [Press Release]
Business Wire | 26 days 23 hours 14 minutes ago
Protective Life Corporation (“Protective,”) (NYSE: PL) today issued a statement regarding Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings actions related to the company ratings:

Fifth Annual FinTech 100 Rankings Released by American Banker and Financial Insights [Press Release]
Business Wire | 19 days 9 hours 14 minutes ago
American Banker, SourceMedia’s flagship publication for banking and financial services professionals, and Financial Insights, an independent research services firm and an IDC Company, today released the fifth annual FinTech 100 rankings of the top technology providers to the financial services industry worldwide.

Moody's Corporation Declares Quarterly Dividend [Press Release]
Business Wire | 34 days 11 hours 13 minutes ago
On October 28, 2008, the Board of Directors of Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO) declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.10 per share of MCO Common Stock. The dividend will be payable December 10, 2008 to stockholders of record at the close of business on November 20, 2008.

Dates Set for Moody's Earnings Release and Investor Teleconference [Press Release]
Business Wire | 56 days 1 hour 59 minutes ago
Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO) will release third quarter 2008 results before the start of NYSE trading on Wednesday, October 29, 2008. A copy of the release will be posted on Moody's Shareholder Relations website, http://ir.moodys.com.

Allstate Reports 2008 Third Quarter Results [Press Release]
Business Wire | 41 days 2 hours 9 minutes ago
The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL):

Ambac Commutes Approximately $3.5 Billion of CDO Exposure for Cash Settlement of $1 Billion [Press Release]
Business Wire | 13 days 3 minutes ago
Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK) (Ambac) today announced that it has commuted two CDO of CDO of ABS (commonly referred to as CDO-squared) exposures and two high grade CDO of ABS exposures. The four transactions, with an aggregate of approximately $3.5 billion notional outstanding at September 30, 2008, were settled with counterparties in exchange for a total cash payment by Ambac Assurance Corporation (AAC) of $1.0 billion. The two CDO-squared transactions originally comprised collater...

Moody's Analytics Announces Release of Moody's CreditCycle, the First Consumer Loan Risk-Modeling Service to Integrate Regional Economics with Consumer Credit Performance Data [Press Release]
Business Wire | 26 days 7 hours 14 minutes ago
Moody's Analytics announced today the launch of a new service for forecasting and stress testing the performance of consumer loan portfolios. Called Moody’s CreditCycle, the service is the only one of its kind that integrates internal, lender-specific performance factors, such as lending standards and collection practices, with regional economic performance data and forecasts.

Northgate Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial and Operating Results [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 28 days 5 hours 14 minutes ago
Record Quarterly Production Forecast for Q4-2008

Moody's Corporation Reports Results for Third Quarter 2008 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 34 days 11 hours 14 minutes ago
Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO) today announced results for the third quarter 2008.

TELUS Reports Third Quarter Results [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 25 days 3 hours 14 minutes ago
Record wireless subscriber loading Dividend increased

Alliance Bankshares Reports 3rd Quarter 2008 Results [Press Release]
Business Wire | 27 days 20 hours 3 minutes ago
Alliance Bankshares Corporation (NASDAQ: ABVA) today reported a third quarter loss of $2,371,000 Much of this loss can be attributed to $364,000 in direct OREO expenses and a $2,200,00 provision for loan losses. On a year to date basis, the organization had a net loss of $5,537,000. Despite the net loss, all regulatory capital ratios remain above the levels necessary to be considered a “well capitalized” institution.

MBIA Comments on Moody's Downgrade of MBIA's Insurance Financial Strength Rating to Baa1 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 25 days 36 minutes ago
MBIA Inc. (NYSE: MBI) issued the following statement in response to the decision today by Moody's Investors Service to downgrade MBIA Insurance Corporation’s insurance financial strength rating from A2 to Baa1 with a developing outlook.

EMBLAZE LTD - Interim Management Statement [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 13 days 6 hours ago
Emblaze Ltd.