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

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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