THE Local Government Association has called for an inquiry into credit rating agencies, after millions of pounds of council assets were frozen in Icelandic banks.
116 councils are known to have had assets in the banks – assets which include some from local government pension schemes. The LGA has discovered that the credit rating agencies were giving the ban...
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