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AHI: United States » Securitization
Call it Franny: Part 2, “Some form of market utility”
9 April, 2013 (12:18) | Capital markets, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GSEs, Legislation and policy, Secondary markets, Securitization, Subprime, US News | [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday we saw, via a month-old article in Reuters (March 4, 2013), that FHFA director Ed DeMarco had decided to take a seemingly innocuous step, one that he cloaked in mild-mannered language – and yet, when the history is written, this will be seen as […]
Call it Franny: Part 1, “Create something of value”
8 April, 2013 (12:39) | Capital markets, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GSEs, Legislation and policy, Secondary markets, Securitization, Subprime, US News | By:David A. Smith Unify the chassis, unify the companies: If that wasn’t Alfred Sloan’s motto at General Motors, it should have been, for it guided both Sloan’s GM and Lee Iacocca’s Chrysler – and it appears to be guiding the reluctant revolutionary, Ed DeMarco, who despite being alternatively ignored or excoriated by some Washington […]
13 March, 2013 (09:00) | Litigation, Rating agencies, Securitization, Standard & Poor's, Subprime, US News | By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] They’ll take suggestion as a cat laps milk. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest Yesterday’s post delved into the juicy details deliberately provided by the Department of Justice in its $5 billion lawsuit against Standard & Poor’s, as reported in the Wall Street Journal (February […]
Structured by cows: Part 1, Fastest animal on earth?
12 March, 2013 (09:00) | Litigation, Rating agencies, Securitization, Standard & Poor's, Subprime, US News | By:David A. Smith A CDO could be structured by cows and we would rate it. – Unnamed S&P employee cited in Department of Justice Lawsuit Too chicken to rate my securities? People like stories, especially parables, especially parables that reinforce our moral views of the world. Because of this, we should be […]
It’s about time, five billion bucks’ worth: Part 4, A deal could sink the company
14 February, 2013 (09:00) | Enforcement, Fitch, Litigation, Moody's, Rating agencies, Regulation, Securitization, Standard & Poor's, Subprime, US News | By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the preceding Part 2 and Part 1.] By now readers should be in no doubt, based on my initial post on of the Department of Justice suing Standard & Poor’s, reported in the Wall Street Journal (February 5, 2013) and a review of Justice’s initial […]