CDO market

 A New Report From Aite Group

If Goldman's alleged transgressions are not properly assessed, poorly crafted legislation will adversely affect financial innovation by distorting the fundamental roles of market participants.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Goldman, Sachs & Co. and one of its vice presidents for defrauding investors by misstating and omitting key facts about a financial product tied to subprime mortgages as the U.S. housing market was beginning to falter.
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Moody’s Analytics, a leader in risk management solutions, today announced the release of RiskFrontier 2.4, an update to its portfolio management and economic capital solution. The update features a new CDO risk model that better represents the correlation of structured assets within a portfolio. In addition, RiskFrontier’s deal analysis module can now be customized to allow for real-time calculations of a deal’s impact on a portfolio.

A New Report From Aite Group

Despite challenges, the business and economic conditions underlying the CDS market will remain compelling for both dealers and non-dealers.

A new report from Aite Group, LLC examines new developments in the credit default swap (CDS) industry and considers challenges that must be addressed. It also reviews pending regulations and what these regulations could mean to the CDS market.

The idea that the industry lacks a central registry for over-the-counter (OTC) credit default swaps (CDS) is grossly misleading and has resulted in inaccurate speculation on a number of matters, including the overall size of the market, its role in the mortgage crisis, and the size of potential payment obligations under credit default swaps relating to Lehman Brothers. The extent to which such speculation has fueled last week’s market turmoil is difficult to determine. The facts are these:

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