R&R Consulting's Ann Rutledge notes that the financial crisis has demonstrated the need for new fraud risk models to facilitate sound economic decisions within the capitalist framework. Paradoxically, while improper use of securitization brought on the financial crisis, properly implemented securitization models could help revive...
R&R's Ann Rutledge discusses how flawed securitization set off the economic crisis in the cover story of the current issue of National Journal Magazine:"Until the early part of this decade, Rutledge says, most of the blueprints for building structured securities were imperfect but honest. Sometime...
Recently the Financial Economists Roundtable (FER) posted a summary of their thinking in July 2008 on Reforming the Role of Statistical Rating Organizations [SROs] in the Securitization Process. The FER is a group of senior financial economists who advance the study of finance and frame...
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...
Over the past few months, the financial battleground in Hollywood has been shifting under our feet as fast as a California Earthquake.Film studio bosses are engaged in a struggle to eliminate the residuals now paid to screenwriters over the life of the production. The residuals...