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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

Rolling credit

In the period from December 2006 to November 2007, the Cutting Edge section saw a slightly increased number of submissions compared with last year, but trends in publications and rejections (only one out of four sees the light of acceptance) show how our…

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…

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