Hints and tips:
...Credit Suisse’s former head of CDO trading has been arrested in the UK....
...BNP Paribas says in its Q2 results presentation that there is “€1.7bn outside the plan,” i.e. must involve bonds maturing after 2020....
...By contrast SocGen’s gross exposure to senior and super senior US RMBS CDO tranches (which are marked to model) has fallen more than €1bn to €2.46bn, since it’s been able to begin offloading them and marking...
...I have that [belief] because I use Facebook all the time and when I use it, I’m not really going there for information, I’m going there for communication....
...“I’ve always loved the theatrical menace of it,” he says. “In terms of inspiration, I started out looking at fetish glamazons from Eric Stanton illustrations and ended up in leather bars....
...“But the industry will go back to basics; people will shy away from over-designed, over-structured products like CLOs [collateralised loan obligations], CDOs [collateralised debt obligations] and overly...
...This was from Bloomberg on Monday, citing a Moody’s statement putting a €153m CDO issued by Rosetta I SA on review for possible downgrade: Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) — Moody’s Investors Service says it may revise...
...The accounting systems in the economy are the thermometer, and I’m not sure their measurement scale is the right one today,” he said....
...At the risk of seeming disingenuous, since I benefited from this system for 17 years, I propose an extreme makeover for compensation....
...But “I think it is relatively shallow rally. Given the wrong sort of news flow, the market could turn again.”...
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