What do you make of the provisions (draft bailout bill 132, 133) authorizing the SEC to suspend mark-to-market (MTM)? Do you think they will exercise this authority? What’s the buzz on the Street? Would suspension just create more confusion and uncertainty?Also, a study of mtm...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke signaled that the government should buy devalued assets at above-market values to make its proposed $700 billion rescue package most effective in combating the financial crisis...
Tunisian asset manager Finaud Capital Management is preparing a $150 million film securitization. The Maghreb Media Buyout Bridge Fund aims to give independent filmmakers more access to funding, minimize investor risk and encourage film production in the Maghreb region, which includes Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Libya...
R&R’s Ann Rutledge is quoted in China’s leading financial publication, Caijing, on July 30 in a report on Merrill Lynch’s sale of billions of dollars of CDOs at a deep discount: "Ann Rutledge, a partner for the structured finance consultancy R&R Consultants, described the move as...
Debating whether credit agencies are partly to blame for the subprime mortgage crisis, with Ann Rutledge, R&R Consulting principal, and Josh Rosner, Graham Fisher & Co. managing director Click here to watch the video ...
R&R's Sylvain Raynes will comment on "How to Improve the Credit Rating Agency Sector" at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., on June 24, along with Erik R. Sirri of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Lawrence J. White of New York University, Joshua Rosner...
R&R's Sylvain Raynes was interviewed by the New York-based correspondent for China's leading financial weekly, Caijing, in early June. Following is a partial English translation of the original Chinese article. Credit Market’s Recovery Grinds to a Halt By Eva Woo, Caijing, June 6, 2008 On the afternoon of...
Sylvain Raynes was one of six independent leading experts of banking and financial intermediaries who spoke at a recent panel discussion in New York organized by Nouriel Roubini’s RGE Monitor and attended by more than 150 private and financial sector professionals. Apart from Sylvain and...
By Caroline Baum Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Ever since financial markets went into their summer swoon, economists, analysts and journalists have been trying to explain why a small number of defaults on a small number of home loans morphed into a global liquidity and credit squeeze. How...
R&R Consulting will launch a CDS of ABS valuation engine, CDSMetrics. This includes CDS contracts written on individual tranches of RBMS transactions. CDSMetrics is a web-enabled application successfully used by hedge fund clients of R&R to value CDS of RMBS contracts. CDSMetrics uses a loss distribution...