In the early days of synthetic collateralized debt obligations, most deals were static. When static deals were hit by a series of defaults in 2001 and 2002, managed deals became popular with investors ...

The market divides into three distinct parts. The oldest type of synthetic CDO is the balance-sheet or regulatory capital deal. Banks started to issue these in 1997, realizing that they could reduce ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The $600 billion market in synthetic collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) could weather the credit crisis, including the collapse of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, without ...

Aug 24 - OVERVIEW -- We have reviewed the ratings on all European transactions in the monthly Global SROC Report. -- We have taken various rating actions on 22 synthetic CDO tranches. -- All the ...

CDOs with an underlying of credit-default swaps on leveraged loans are being structured by dealers to diversify underlying portfolios. Firms looking to issue transactions include Morgan Stanley and ...

(Bloomberg Markets) -- It started with bonds. Now even collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) come in green. From the humble bank loan to a complex swap, there is virtually no corner of finance for ...

Sharp market swings and rising bankruptcies have failed to dampen activity in a complex breed of credit derivatives that enable investors to take leveraged bets on company defaults. The net size of ...

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After it changed the structure of its Global Markets division to ensure a better fit with the global CDO business, Deutsche Bank was impeccably placed to capture the main themes of 2003. It took full ...

The threat of spread-widening continues to lurk just under the surface of benign credit market conditions. One of the unique selling points of a hybrid CDO, Jazz 3, managed by Axa and arranged by ...

My, how quickly we've forgotten the lessons of the financial crisis. Even though the debt markets have once again mispriced risk -- when junk bonds yield a mere 5 percent, you can be sure serious ...

Then came synthetic CDOs, which went further still, creating exposure to housing risk without requiring a single actual mortgage. By the time the system collapsed, finance was no longer trading on ...