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NDFA and DRL plunge into administration on Lehman liabilities
NDF Administration (NDFA) and Defined Returns Limited (DRL), UK structured products distributors and plan managers, have entered into administration. The move comes at the request of their directors,...
International investors are contacting US lawyers for help on losses arising from Lehman Brothers-backed principal-protected notes, according to Florida-based law firm Vernon Healy. The firm has seen...
Structured products underwritten by Lehman Brothers were the most direct means by which retail investors were exposed to the collapse of the US investment bank 12 months ago. Regulators in many regions...
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UK FSA to punish firms over Lehman Brothers notes
The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has enough information about the issues relating to Lehman Brothers-backed structured products to “move forward”, according to a statement it released on September 11, which quotes Dan Waters, the regulator’s...
A matter of trust
More than a year on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers, administrators are still trawling through the estate of Lehman Brothers International (Europe). A scheme of arrangement designed to speed up the return of trust assets to clients failed to win...
Lehman litigation: Courting trouble
Unravelling the many failed structured finance deals with Lehman Brothers as counterparty is the unenviable job of a small army of lawyers and bankers. Inevitably, a handful of deals are being settled in court, and the lawsuits may well set a precedent...
Risk.net Poll: Industry expects no real regulatory changes
Seventy eight per cent of respondents to a Risk.net poll expected there would be no substantial regulatory change to the financial services industry, despite the fallout from the credit crunch and widespread promises to reform regulation and oversight....
PwC may distribute UK Lehman trust assets regardless of court approval
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), one of the joint administrators for Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE), has indicated it may press ahead with an adapted version of an arrangement that would not need court approval in order to distribute trust...
CDSs on US financials tighten
In the week of the first anniversary of Lehman Brothers' filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, credit spreads referencing US financials contracted across the board. Five-year senior credit default swaps (CDS) referencing Bank of America moved in from 143.89...
Force banks to become simpler, Basel Committee says
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has called on regulators to push banks to simplify their structures in order to make them easier to wind up in the event of collapse. "Capital or other prudential requirements, designed to encourage simplification...
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