{"id":60676,"date":"2025-11-27T10:46:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=60676"},"modified":"2025-11-27T10:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:46:36","slug":"tether-ceo-paolo-ardoino-slams-traditional-rating-agencies-after-sp-downgrades-its-dollar-peg-ability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=60676","title":{"rendered":"Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino Slams Traditional Rating Agencies After S&amp;P Downgrades Its Dollar Peg Ability"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Paolo Ardoino<\/strong>, the CEO of <strong>Tether <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"USDT\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/USDT-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">USDT<\/a>), questioned on Wednesday the methodologies adopted by traditional rating agencies after the<strong> S&amp;P <\/strong>downgraded the stablecoin issuer\u2019s stability rating.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tether CEO Challenges TradFi Ratings<\/h2>\n<p>Ardoino slammed S&amp;P Global Ratings in an X post, saying that the company wears the \u201cloathing\u201d with pride.<\/p>\n<p>Ardoino criticized the \u201cclassical rating models,\u201d alleging that they have led investors to put money in companies that eventually collapsed despite receiving investment-grade ratings. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe traditional finance propaganda machine is growing worried when any company tries to defy the force of gravity of the broken financial system,\u201d the CEO said.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">to S&amp;P regarding your Tether rating: <\/p>\n<p>We wear your loathing &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/11\/49103197\/tether-ceo-paolo-ardoino-slams-traditional-rating-agencies-after-sp-downgrades-its-dollar-p?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Tether\" ceo paolo ardoino slams traditional rating agencies after s downgrades its dollar peg ability>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paolo Ardoino, the CEO of Tether (CRYPTO: USDT), questioned on Wednesday the methodologies adopted by traditional rating agencies after the S&amp;P downgraded the stablecoin issuer\u2019s stability rating. Tether CEO Challenges TradFi Ratings Ardoino slammed S&amp;P Global Ratings in an X post, saying that the company wears the \u201cloathing\u201d with pride. Ardoino criticized the \u201cclassical rating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-60676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}