K2 Global Appoints Chris Morgan Jones as EMEA Strategic Advisor
PR Newswire. July 12, 2010
K2 Global Consulting today announced the appointment of Chris Morgan Jones as Strategic Advisor to its Europe, Middle East and Africa business. Morgan Jones will advise K2 Global's EMEA management team on strategy, management and client assignments.
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Reflecting on Ratings Hearing
CNBC. June 2, 2010
Jules Kroll, chairman of K2 Global, shares his views on Washington once again taking aim at ratings agencies.
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Startup Looks For A New Way To Rate Credit
NPR. May 20, 2010
In this NPR interview, Jules discusses the creation of his new credit ratings agency, Kroll Bond Ratings.
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Jules Kroll appears on Bloomberg television
Bloomberg. May 13, 2010
Jules Kroll, chairman of K2 Global, shares his views on what's wrong with the current credit ratings agencies and how can they be fixed.
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A New Ratings Game in Town
FOX Business Network. May 10, 2010
Jules Kroll appears on Bloomberg television
Bloomberg. May 3, 2010
Jules Kroll, chairman of K2 Global, shares his views on the current credit rating agencies and how his Kroll Bond Ratings, opening in July, will be different.
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Enter Kroll Bond Ratings
McClatchy. May 5, 2010
Enter Kroll Bond Ratings, which is to open in late summer. Its founder Jules Kroll, well-known in the esoteric field of forensic accounting, bets that from now on, investors will demand due diligence before they purchase another complex security packaged by Wall Street and given an investment-grade rating by a ratings agency.
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Ratings Agencies Under Fire
CNBC. April 23, 2010
Jules Kroll, chairman of K2 Global, shares his views on Washington taking aim at ratings agencies once again.
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Jules Kroll, Father of Modern Investigations Industry, Launches K2 Office in London
PR Newswire. March 10, 2010
Jules Kroll has announced the opening of a new risk management venture, K2 Global Consulting ("K2"). The company will be a provider of risk consulting and advisory services to multi-national corporations, sovereign nations and individuals.
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Jules Kroll on The Charlie Rose Show
PBS. December 31, 2009
The Secret Keeper: Jules Kroll and the World of Corporate Intelligence
The New Yorker. October 19, 2009
In 1972, Jules Kroll launched J. Kroll Associates, which eventually became Kroll, Inc., the world's preeminent detective agency, with three thousand employees, countless subcontractors, and offices in sixty cities in more than thirty-five countries.
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Going After Rating Agencies
Business News Network. October 26, 2009
Jules Kroll appears on the Business News Network's Midday Markets program discussing plans to launch a risk rating agency.
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In Conversation: Jeremy Kroll of K2 Global Partners
Frankfurter Allgemeine. November 6, 2009
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Kroll to launch credit ratings business
Financial Times. October 18, 2009
Jules Kroll, the man who reinvented the detective agency as the modern
multinational corporate security firm, now intends to apply his powers of
deduction to the credit ratings industry.
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Credit Ratings Crusader
CNBC. October 15, 2009
Jules Kroll, chairman of K2 Global, is creating a new company that he says will bring credibility back to the tarnished credit ratings arena.
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Kroll seeking institutions to help fund his new credit-rating firm
Pensions & Investments. October 2, 2009
Jules B. Kroll, chairman of K2 Global Partners, a risk consulting firm, wants 10 to 20 institutional investors — pension funds, endowments, foundations and mutual funds — to invest in a credit-rating firm he expects to open in the first quarter of next year.
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