Find the way." The pressure was real. Citing former Moody's managers, Bloomberg reports that in 2000 one Moody's executive "visited Wall Street banking customers to pledge a closer, more cooperative relationship and asked whether any of his analysts were particularly difficult to work with." As a result of finding a way, the two companies were having a very profitable decade before everything began to collapse in 2007. Structured finance products, backed by mortgages or other forms of fixed-income assets, were all the rage.