04 Aug

Posted at 16:30h in Death of Hollywood

Relativity Media's descent into bankruptcy has been spiraling for many years, almost since its beginning according to some analysts. When the company first emerged back in 2004, it was greeted with a mixture of high hope and deep doubt. Relativity promised new approaches and a vague claim to modern...

16 Sep

Posted at 09:58h in Credit Spectrum

The Los Angeles Times quotes R&R Consulting's Sylvain Raynes on the lessons learned -- or not-- in the financial industry one year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. "[Raynes] became an early critic of the excesses in the so-called structured-finance market. Now, instead of creating the...

20 Jul

Posted at 17:09h in Credit Spectrum

"Is the financial system stable enough yet to fix itself?" In a Fortune article exploring this question, R&R's Sylvain Raynes sees the prospect of a CIT Group bankruptcy as a new beginning. "There is still value in CIT that can be picked out if the...