The New York Times and Huffington Post quote R&R Consulting principals Sylvain Raynes and Ann Rutledge on the report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released on January 27. Among the report's revelations is the finding that some $2.9 billion from the taxpayer rescue of...
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...
MarketWatch interviews R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes on the importance of informed analysis in marketing CDOs. Read the full article by Alistair Barr: "Out of Thin Air: Synthetic CDOs, at the center of Goldman suit, inflated the credit bubble," MarketWatch, April 26, 2010....
R&R Consulting principal Ann Rutledge is interviewed at length on the Daily Finance website about the need for drastic reforms to address shortcomings in the CDO market highlighted by the Goldman Sach Abacus case. Read the full interview by Peter Cohan, "Behind the $4 Trillion in...
R&R Consulting Principal Ann Rutledge talks with Bloomberg Television about the "toxic" resecuritizations that doomed AIG. Watch the Bloomberg telecast on YouTube, "Rutledge Says AIG Had 'Recipe For Implosion' With CDOs: Video," and read a write-up on Bloomberg.com, "How Lou Lucido Let AIG Lose $35 Billion...
R&R Consulting's Sylvain Raynes comments on the "cynical" use of credit information by Goldman Sachs in "Banks Bundled Bad Debt, Bet Against It and Won," by Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story in The New York Times, December 24, 2009. Sylvain Raynes joins Louise Story for a...
Bloomberg quotes R&R's Sylvain Raynes on Morgan Stanley's plans to repackage a downgraded collateralized debt obligation into new securities with AA ratings, the first transaction of its kind: "A lot of banks and insurers 'cannot buy anything but AAA,' said Sylvain Raynes, a principal at R&R...
An editorial by Sylvain Raynes and Phillip L. Zweig urges the Obama administration to end the credit crisis through a valuation process acknowledging that the intrinsic value of a security may be substantially greater than what a buyer is willing to pay for it in...