Bloomberg quotes R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes regarding news that the Federal Reserve withheld details on individual securities pledged as collateral by recipients of the $885 billion federal bailout. Read the full story by Caroline Salas and Matthew Leising, "Federal Reserve Withholds Collateral Data, Denying...
Do the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's attempts to recover taxpayer funds used in the financial crisis bailout betray its mission to ensure the stability of the financial system? R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes weighs in. Read the full article by Caroline Salas and...
R&R Consulting principal Ann Rutledge is among the experts quoted in a Washington Post article on the ramifications of flawed paperwork that has brought foreclosures to a standstill nationwide. Read the full article by Ariana Eunjung Cha and Jia Lynn Yang, "Lack of proper mortgage...
The New York Times interviews R&R Consulting principal Ann Rutledge about the Security and Exchange Commission's proposal to tighten rules as a means of restoring trust to the asset-backed securities market. Read her assessment of the prospects for meaningful reform in Gretchen Morgenson's September 4...
Wolfgang Pauli is the source of this excellent quip. More famously, he is responsible for the Pauli exclusion principle, which asserts that no two electrons can exist in the same quantum state. Were he alive today, maybe Dr. Pauli could help us straighten ourselves out...
R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes challenges the government's claim that it purchased "investment grade" assets in its 2008 rescue of Bear Stearns. Read the full story by Caroline Salas, Craig Torres and Shannon D. Harrington, "Fed Made Taxpayers Unwitting Junk-Bond Buyers," Bloomberg, July 1, 2010....
R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes expresses skepticism toward Goldman Sach's claims that it did not have full access to information on AIG's finances in its proprietary trades with the troubled insurer in 2005 and 2006. Read the full story by Greg Gordon, "Goldman admits it...
R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes expresses skepticism over the effectiveness of a Senate proposal to establish a clearinghouse for rating complex securities. Read the full article by Karen Brettell, "Franken bill unlikely to make ratings more reliable," Reuters, May 14, 2010....
R&R Consulting principal Ann Rutledge is interviewed in an article on how to address the monopoly rating agencies currently enjoy, to the detriment of the debt market and the economy as a whole. Read the full article by Vanessa Drucker, "Second Rate," on the FundStrategy website....
A controversial recent encounter with Jim Cramer on CNBC has had many people asking, "Who is Sylvain Raynes?" Quantnetwork gets to the heart of the matter in an amusing in-depth interview with R&R Consulting's co-founder. Read the full article on Quantnetwork....