rating agency

(14) Rating agency .— The term “rating agency” means a credit rating agency registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a nationally recognized statistical rating organization (as that term is defined in section 3(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ( 15 U.S.C. 78c(a) )).

Source

23 USC § 601(a)(14)


Scoping language

None identified, default scope is assumed to be the parent (chapter 6) of this section.
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