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New S&P Chief Knows Crisis and Change
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Douglas Peterson, chief operating officer of Citibank, will become the new president of Standard & Poor's. He brings useful experience facing a parliamentary inquiry in Japan, after Citibank ran into trouble with Japan's securities laws. He was also the bank's chief auditor and worked with regulators for the introduction of major accounting rules.
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