TY - BOOK AU - Mai Ossama Salah Eldin Hassan AU - Christian Kalhoefer , TI - Subprime meltdown : : Assessing the role and challenges of credit rating agencies in structured finance / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mai Ossama Salah Eldin Hassan , N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - German University - Faculty of Management and Technology - Department of the Finance N2 - The global financial markets evidenced elevated losses and un - preceded recession not witnessed since the great depression of 1929 . The current crisis started when mounting delinquencies started to occur on the subprime mortgages in the US that continued to spread beyond the scope of the mortgage markets and beyond the borders of the US UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -