"Standard & Poor's" lowers the rating of banks.

Building "Standard & Poor's"

The well-known international rating agency "Standard & Poor's", or abbreviated as "S & P", on Tuesday, namely, 30 November 2011, changed the rating of 37 largest banks in the world. The most surprising thing was that as a result of this change decreased rating of successful banks like "Bank of America Corp.", "Citigroup Inc.", "Goldman Sachs Group Inc." and "Barclays".

One of the towers
 "Bank of America Corp."

If we talk about other banks, then decreased at the same rating "JPMorgan Chase & Co.", "Wells Fargo & Co.", "HSBC Holdings", "Lloyds Banking Group", "Royal Bank of Scotland", "Morgan Stanley" , "Lloyds Banking Group". Changes in the rating of the largest banks in the world has not touched "Credit Suisse", "ING", "Deutsche Bank", "Societe Generale" and other banks.
If we talk about is lowering the rating of banks, we can see that the rating of "Bank of America", "JPMorgan Chase & Co.", "Barclays" and "UBS" reduced from the level "A" to "A", ratings of Citigroup Inc. , "Goldman Sachs Group Inc" and "Morgan Stanley" - c "A" to "A-", rating "Wells Fargo" - from "AA-" to "A".
As reported by the very agency "Standard & Poor's", the rating downgrade of the largest banks in the world was due to the fact that in recent times have changed the criteria for assessing banks' ratings. At present, banks estimate the rating also became depend on changes in the global financial and macroeconomic systems, in particular, plays an important role and the government authorized the central banks that finance the banking sector.

The name and symbol
 of the bank "Barclays"

Briefly about the rating agency "Standard & Poor's". "S & P" is a subsidiary of a major corporation "McGraw-Hill", which is engaged in analytical studies of the financial market. Currently, "S & P" is in the top three largest and most influential international rating agencies. Just "S & P" is known for having created the U.S. stock indes "S & P 500" and Australian "S & P 200." The same agency is its editor.