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Lawsuits leave monolines' future in the balance

Two high-profile court cases involving FGIC and XL Capital Assurance could determine the fate of the troubled monoline insurance industry. If the verdicts go against the insurers, the damage would not just be to their reputation, but it would call into…

A clearer picture

Fraud has gone to the top of the postmortem on the US subprime debacle. To detect and prevent it, more information at the loan level is needed, and the standardisation of data would also help investors in mortgage-backed securities make better decisions,…

The Big Interview: Ian Bell

S&P's European structured finance head defends the agency over accusations that they could have done more to anticipate this summer's crisis. He talks to Matthew Attwood

The subprime shake-down

The subprime mortgage market - the root of all the summer's troubles - may well be in turmoil but nobody is suggesting it is about to disappear as a source of financing for securitisations. The question is, what part will it play when the dust finally…

Subprime hope

As the fallout from the troubled US subprime mortgage market continues to spread, Laurence Neville looks at what the future holds and examines some important factors that must be addressed to ensure its survival

First Pacific Advisors - The waiting game pays off

Betting against the markets takes a steady nerve, but for Robert Rodriguez and Thomas Atteberry, investment managers at West Coast house First Pacific Advisors, the strategy has paid off - and how. Dalia Fahmy talks to the two men who run this year's…

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