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标普或因CPDO评级面临集体诉讼

Standard & Poor’s faces the prospect of further legal action in the Australian courts over the rating of risky structured products after a litigation specialist said it would back a class action lawsuit.

由于其对高风险结构性产品给出的评级，标普(Standard & Poor’s)可能面临着澳大利亚法院进一步的法律行动。此前，澳大利亚一家专业诉讼服务公司表示将支持对标普发起集体诉讼。

IMF Australia, a Sydney-based company that provides funding for legal claims, said it had agreed to support a claim against S&P over the rating of constant proportion debt obligation notes (CPDOs) that were created and sold by the wholesale banking arm of ABN Amro in 2006.

IMF Australia表示，已同意出资，支持针对标普对“固定比例债务债券（Constant Proportion Debt Obligations，简称CPDO）产品评级提出的索赔诉讼。2006年，荷兰银行(ABN Amro)批发银行部门构建并出售了这种债券。IMF Australia总部位于悉尼，是一家为法律诉讼提供资金支持的公司。

The action relates to the same securities that a Federal Court judge on Monday described as “grotesquely complicated in a landmark ruling.

本周一，澳大利亚一名联邦法官在一次具有里程碑意义的裁决中，把CPDO描述为一种“复杂透顶的证券。

Justice Jayne Jagot found S&P had misled and dece0ived investors when it awarded its highest grade credit rating to CPDOs whose value collapsed in the run-up to the financial crisis.