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Capital injections, bail-outs, interest rate cuts and quantitative easing. Governments have pulled out the stops to resolve the financial crisis and prop up the crisis-torn banking sector. But the problem...
With injections of government capital seemingly having little effect on restoring confidence in ailing banks, thoughts have once again turned to quarantining distressed assets. Rob Davies examines the...
The issue of how to tackle the vast quantities of impaired assets lingering on banks' balance sheets has given rise to several possible solutions, chief among which is the notion of a 'bad bank'. Credit...
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Q&A: Dottie Cunningham
The CEO of the Commercial Mortgage Securities Association talks about the likely effect of the TALF scheme on the CMBS market
Downgrade for Avondale
Systemic problems in the Irish financial sector, rather than problems with the structure, are behind Moody's placing Bank of Ireland Life's (BoIL) Avondale ViF securitisation on review for downgrade below its current A1 senior level. The EUR400 million...
The repo effect
The ability of banks to use securitisation deals as collateral for repo funding from central banks has resulted in larger deals with more esoteric assets. Laurence Neville looks at how this change is affecting the securitisation market as a whole
Fool's gold - How securitisation promised much ... but delivered little...
The notion that securitisation as a technique is able to increase liquidity in the financial system by making marketable securities out of hitherto illiquid debt has been exposed as flawed, argues Anastasia Nesvetailova. It's not that financial innovation...
Is it too late to revive the securitisation market?
First we were told it was undergoing a temporary hiatus, then it was stalled, now they're saying it's broken altogether. William Rhode takes a look at the global securitisation market to see what, if anything, can be done to restore its fortunes
Keep what you sow
Despite widespread criticism, the European Commission is pushing forward with a proposal to amend the Capital Requirements Directive, which will force banks to retain 10% of all credit risk transfer products on their books. What implications does this...
The Big Interview: Ron Kazel
The managing director of agency MBS investor Annaly Capital Management talks to Sarfraz Thind about the impact of the recent decision by the US government to back mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
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