# Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations
> **US Securities and Exchange Commission** · Final rules. · Published 2014-09-15 · Effective 2014-11-14 · 79 FR 55078
## Document
- **Document number:** 2014-20890
- **Category:** final-rule
- **Agency:** US Securities and Exchange Commission
- **Federal Register citation:** 79 FR 55078
- **CFR reference:** 17 CFR 232
- **Publication date:** 2014-09-15
- **Effective date:** 2014-11-14
- **Docket:** Release No. 34-72936
## Abstract

In accordance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank Act") and to enhance oversight, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") is: adopting amendments to existing rules and new rules that apply to credit rating agencies registered with the Commission as nationally recognized statistical rating organizations ("NRSROs"); adopting a new rule and form that apply to providers of third-party due diligence services for asset-backed securities; and adopting amendments to existing rules and a new rule that implement a requirement added by the Dodd-Frank Act that issuers and underwriters of asset-backed securities make publicly available the findings and conclusions of any third-party due diligence report obtained by the issuer or underwriter. The Commission also is adopting certain technical amendments to existing rules.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/09/15/2014-20890/nationally-recognized-statistical-rating-organizations)
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