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CFO September 1, 2003 Hilary Rosenberg |
Compromising Positions Will credit derivatives encourage more lending, or will they harm the interests of borrowers? |
U.S. Banker August 2001 John Hackett |
Credit Derivatives Hit a Snag After years of booming growth, the market in these hedging tools dropped in the first quarter, but the consensus is that they're too good to keep down. Includes statistics on the biggest bank participants. |
U.S. Banker March 2002 Man Yin Li |
Transfer That Risk! With more and more bankruptcies and defaults, many banks can protect themselves with credit derivatives. There are dangers in using them, but if used intelligently, they can be a boon to many banks... |
Salon.com February 5, 2002 Damien Cave |
Risky business How did Enron break into the elite Wall Street world of credit derivatives? |
The Motley Fool July 25, 2007 S.J. Caplan |
Profit From Credit Default Swaps Credit default swaps are privately negotiated contracts between institutional investors which are based on corporate bonds. How can you profit from them? |
The Motley Fool October 8, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
Is This Buffett's Nightmare Scenario? The credit default swaps are coming. |
BusinessWeek June 12, 2006 Peter Coy |
Time for Banks to Ask, "What If?" With some financial institutions acting more like dare devils than mere risk takers, a systemic crisis may loom. |
CFO April 1, 2004 Ronald Fink |
Playing Favorites Why Alan Greenspan's Fed lets banks off easy on corporate fraud. |
CFO October 1, 2006 Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Are Your Secrets Safe? A shift in banks' business model raises questions about conflicts. |
CFO February 1, 2006 Don Durfee |
Meet Your New Bankers Hedge funds have a pile of cash to lend. Should you take it? |
Reason February 2004 Callahan & Kaza |
In Defense of Derivatives Between Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing, the controversial financial instruments have gotten a bad rap. Here's the truth. |
The Motley Fool March 2, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
Quick Take: Brokerages' Sloppy-Looking Swaps Current trading around banks' debt could suggest trouble ahead. Investors may be concerned that risk wasn't adequately managed with regards to the mortgage loans the banks took on. |
U.S. Banker April 2009 Joseph Rosta |
Trade Credit Default Swaps on an Exchange It's time for this vulnerable market to take its vaccine. |
CFO March 1, 2008 Karen M. Kroll |
Pedaling As Fast As They Can Companies will now need to work harder for credit, as banks' markedly different posture on lending money is affecting businesses of all stripes -- not just those in default. |
Bank Systems & Technology January 29, 2005 Travers & Tyrie |
Monitoring Credit Rising consumer debt levels in many countries have led to concerns about deteriorating credit quality. To mitigate their exposure, leading banks are employing sophisticated analytical techniques to improve underwriting, while also managing risk better through the use of credit derivatives. |
CFO March 1, 2005 Tim Reason |
A Love-Hate Relationship Banks and their customers have grown closer to, and more wary of, each other. |
U.S. Banker January 2002 |
Beware the Syndicators Citigroup and J. P. Morgan Chase & Co., which syndicated billions of dollars of loans to Enron, should have known the truth about Enron�'s condition, and should not have had to depend on outside accountants or on the various rating agencies... |
CFO October 1, 2002 Tim Reason |
Reporting: See-Through Finance The market's distaste for complex financing could raise your company's cost of capital, even if you comply with new reporting rules. |
Finance & Development June 1, 2001 Gabrielle Lipworth & Jens Nystedt |
Crisis Resolution and Private Sector Adaptation The effect on existing debt of recent restructurings and rollovers is somewhat ambiguous and depends on whether positive news about individual instruments' recovery values outweighs negative news about the costs of default on them... |
CFO October 1, 2009 Randy Myers |
Boxed In The government's push to standardize over-the-counter derivatives could severely disrupt corporate hedging programs. |
CFO April 1, 2006 Randy Myers |
Money for Nothing Given their sanguine outlook, it's lenders who urge CFOs and treasurers who haven't already refinanced debt this year to jump on the bandwagon before it leaves town. |
BusinessWeek October 31, 2005 Mara Der Hovanesian |
Hedges: The New Corporate ATMs Hedge funds and other institutional investors are lending money to corporations as banks get pickier. |
CFO October 1, 2008 Vincent Ryan |
Battered But Not Broken Tightened underwriting has strained the relationship between banks and CFOs, but few seem ready to look elsewhere. |
BusinessWeek May 13, 2009 Peter Coy |
Failure: A Bankrupt Idea Why the bankruptcy process that sorted out the mess when companies failed no longer works. |
The Motley Fool April 9, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Greenspan, Rubin, and a Roomful of Hypocrites Three highly regarded leaders, and their inability to face reality. |
Inc. January 1, 2003 Martin Mayer |
A Borrower Be Tough economies and easy credit usually don't mix. So why are banks falling all over themselves to lend small businesses money? |
Salon.com June 26, 2002 Damien Cave |
Foxes guarding the chicken coop President Bush's nominees to the agency that should have regulated Enron's derivatives trading instead helped write the rules that let the company do whatever it wanted in the first place. |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2007 Ben Johnson |
Small Banks, Big Risks In the new era of commercial real estate lending, federal regulators are pressuring even the smallest banks to upgrade their portfolio analysis capabilities to avoid the pitfalls of past downturns. |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Financial Crisis: The Greatest Hits The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's report, two years in the making, is a 623-page tome of everything you could ever want to know about the financial crisis. |
FDIC FYI March 26, 2003 |
Derivatives Risk in Commercial Banking Derivatives serve an essential role in the U.S. and world economies but also present certain risks to the deposit insurance funds. This article explains what these risks are and describes how they are managed within commercial banking. |
The Motley Fool November 12, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
This Is Poison for Our Economy There's a lot of talk of recovery, but has our financial system really seen the light? |
U.S. Banker February 2002 |
Citigroup Thrives, While Chase Shrivels Citigroup is king -- of just about everything financial. For one thing, it has unseated Merrill Lynch & Co. from its 11-year reign as the nation's lead underwriter... |
BusinessWeek July 29, 2010 Chad Terhune |
ICE's Jeffrey Sprecher: The Sultan of Swaps Sprecher has found profit remodeling the credit default swap market. His close relationship with banks has critics worried that he hasn't made it safer. |
The Motley Fool May 27, 2008 Morgan Housel |
The Next Shoe to Drop Billionaire investor George Soros speaks about the possibility of defaults on CDSs hangs like "a sword of Damocles that is bound to fall," and how this could be a financial calamity in the making. |
CFO March 1, 2007 Randy Myers |
Dividing the Spoils Most CFOs and treasurers recognize that when the credit cycle finally does turn, they may need the goodwill of a longtime banking partner to ensure access to capital under less-than-ideal conditions. |
Bank Systems & Technology June 24, 2008 Thompson & Mataconis |
Banks Must Rely On Their Own Risk Models in Future Long-term, it's clear that banks will have to provide more transparency into their credit and risk decisions -- and do a lot more of the work themselves. |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Here's How Messed Up Our Financial System Is Is it time to heed Munger's advice and totally ban credit default swaps? |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2009 Dayana Yochim |
Report From the White House: Will Regulation Stifle Innovation? Here is the fifth installment of our interview with Austan Goolsbee, chief economist for the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. |
OCC Bulletin May 22, 2002 |
Unsafe and Unsound Investment Portfolio Practices Description: Supplemental Guidance This bulletin alerts banks to the potential risk to future earnings and capital from poor investment decisions made at the current low level of interest rates... |
CFO November 1, 2003 |
Citi's New Stance After more than a year of scandal and public penance, Citigroup CFO Todd Thomson is determined to rebuild the reputation of the financial-services giant. |
CFO October 1, 2006 Randy Myers |
A Change of Season Don't let a turn in the credit cycle catch you napping. What should corporate borrowers be doing? The most obvious course of action is to get while the getting is good. |
CFO November 1, 2010 Vincent Ryan |
Making Sense of Bank Reform The Dodd-Frank Act is arguably as inscrutable as the institutions and instruments it is supposed to fix. |
CFO February 1, 2008 Tim Reason |
Bending the Rules Efforts to contain damage from the subprime-mortgage meltdown are stretching accounting rules for securitization. |
CFO October 1, 2008 Avital Louria Hahn |
Back to the Drawing Board Burned by complex deals, investment banks show a new appreciation for simplicity. |
BusinessWeek August 5, 2009 Silver-Greenberg et al. |
Old Banks, New Lending Tricks Lenders haven't sworn off risky financial products. They've come up with a slew of new ones. |
The Motley Fool January 18, 2008 Rich Smith |
10 Questions for John Mauldin: Part 2 A top investor of 2007 discusses his predictions for the next year. |
U.S. Banker February 2004 Karen Krebsbach |
In Land of Rising Sun, Rays of Hope for Struggling Bank Sector Though Japan's banks have been ailing for more than a decade, the sector's pulse is strengthening. Signs of change are everywhere, as the four megabanks reported second-half 2003 profits for the first time in 20 years. Can the recovery last? |
CFO October 1, 2007 Rob Garver |
One Nation, Left Behind The race to cut compliance-based capital has begun, and U.S. banks are trailing the pack -- badly. |
BusinessWeek November 24, 2010 Schmidt & Brush |
Will Currency Derivatives Get a Pass on Oversight? Banks want them exempted. Geithner is caught between bankers and regulators on how much oversight to give currency derivatives. |
BusinessWeek September 3, 2007 Peter Coy |
It's Out Of Bernanke's Reach There's little the Fed can do about the information gap behind investors' panic. |