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S&P has lowered 432 ratings from 239 US synthetic CDO transactions. Concurrently, 238 of the...
News Round-up 3 June 2009 -
Former BAIS broker alleges improper promotion of CDOs
A FINRA arbitration claim, Case No. 09-02485, has been filed by a former Banc of America broker agai...
Job Swaps 3 June 2009 -
Private equity firm hires TRUPS CDO expert
Jim Brennan, former lead analyst for trust preferred CDOs at Moody's, has joined private equity firm...
Job Swaps 3 June 2009 -
... and European synthetic CDOs impacted
S&P has taken credit rating actions on 315 European synthetic CDO tranches. Specifically, th...
News Round-up 3 June 2009 -
ABS CDOs hit
S&P has lowered its ratings on 70 tranches from 22 US cashflow and hybrid...
News Round-up 3 June 2009 -
CRE CDOs downgraded
S&P has lowered its ratings on 233 tranches from 32 commercial real estate (CRE) CDO transac...
News Round-up 3 June 2009 -
Misra heads to UBS
Rajeev Misra is understood to be joining UBS as head of its global credit business. Misra was global...
Job Swaps 27 May 2009 -
Credit trading head appointed
Standard Chartered Bank has appointed Brent Eastburg as its new global head of credit trading. Eastb...
Job Swaps 27 May 2009 -
Japanese CDOs impacted
S&P has lowered its ratings on 29 tranches relating to 21 Japanese synthetic CDO transaction...
News Round-up 27 May 2009 -
Loss severities assigned to CSOs
Fitch has assigned loss severity (LS) ratings to 310 tranches (affecting 239 public ratings and 71 p...
News Round-up 27 May 2009 -
Euro ABS downgrades far outnumber upgrades
During Q109, downgrades outnumbered upgrades among European structured finance transactions by more...
News Round-up 27 May 2009 -
Asian CDOs hit by SROC results
S&P has lowered the ratings on 24 Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) synthetic CDOs, nine of whi...
News Round-up 27 May 2009 -
US CLO O/C EOD provisions a growing concern
According to a new report published by S&P, the credit quality of many US CLO transactions h...
News Round-up 27 May 2009 -
Valuations firm hires for structured credit push
Prime Source, the independent valuation service launched by NYSE Euronext last year, has hired Arvin...
Job Swaps 27 May 2009 -
New exposure
KBC's bailout puts spotlight on other MBIA policyholders
KBC's third bailout in eight months - following new CDO write-downs and revelations of sub...
News Analysis 20 May 2009 -
CDO manager ousted by controlling class
Realty Finance has been given written notice from MBIA of its decision to terminate the existing col...
Job Swaps 20 May 2009