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Muni CDO rating process reviewed
S&P says it is undertaking a review of the assumptions and methodologies it uses to assign r...
News Round-up 19 May 2010 -
CPDO coding error resurfaces
Moody's disclosed in its latest quarterly 10-Q filing that on 18 March it received a Wells Notice fr...
Job Swaps 12 May 2010 -
Investors react to sovereign concerns
Eurozone sovereign contagion concerns finally took their toll on the ABS and CDO markets late last w...
News 12 May 2010 -
Defeasance note-backed deal rated
Deutsche Bank has closed an unusual real estate-related securitisation, backed by three defeasance n...
News Round-up 12 May 2010 -
CDO Evaluator error expunged
S&P has released version 5.1 of its CDO Evaluator credit model, correcting an error in the o...
News Round-up 12 May 2010 -
Portuguese banks stockpiling assets
Portuguese structured finance transactions have seen increasing signs of declining performance that...
News Round-up 12 May 2010 -
Retranched CDOs rated
Two CDOs - Gale Force 2 CLO and LCM II - have been retranched and renamed Gale F...
News Round-up 5 May 2010 -
Sovereign obligor concentration analysed
S&P has reviewed the synthetic CDO (SCDO) transactions it rates as part of its investigation...
News Round-up 5 May 2010 -
CDO Evaluator error disclosed
S&P says it has become aware of an error in its CDO Evaluator 5.0 credit model. The error is...
News Round-up 5 May 2010 -
SIV-lite case dismissed
Oddo Securities' lawsuit against Barclays Capital and Solent Capital Partners has been dismissed by...
Job Swaps 5 May 2010 -
Business as usual
European CLO market activity to 23 April
Trading levels and sentiment within the European secondary CLO market appear to have been unaffected...
Market Reports 28 April 2010 -
Sound and fury
Tales told, but little signified
Much has already been written about the appearance of "Goldman Sachs" before the "Senate" in the 18...
Talking Point 28 April 2010 -
Goldman's Tourre surprised over ACA
In testimony on Capitol Hill yesterday (27 April), Goldman Sach's trader Fabrice Tourre said he was...
News Round-up 28 April 2010 -
Euro CDO outlook still negative
The outlook for European structured credit transactions is still negative despite the pace of corpor...
News Round-up 28 April 2010 -
Trigger happy?
CDO litigation risk likely to remain stable post-Goldman
The US SEC's complaint against Goldman Sachs appears not to have sparked a dramatic increase in CDO...
News Analysis 28 April 2010 -
Global SF downgrades moderate
Fitch says the number of negative structured finance (SF) rating actions in Q110 was lower than the...
News Round-up 28 April 2010