Which of the Following Policy Measures Created an Office of Credit

question 44

Multiple Choice

Which of the following policy measures created an Office of Credit Ratings at the SEC with its own staff and the authority to fine credit-rating agencies and to deregister an agency if it produces bad ratings?

• A)the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010
• B)Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
• C)Global Legal Settlement of 2002
• D)Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999
• E)Riegle-Neal Act of 1994

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Definitions:

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