Beijing firmly opposes U.S. tariff hikes on Chinese imports, China's commerce ministry said in a statement on Saturday, urging the U.S. to immediately correct its "wrongdoings" and lift all tariffs ...

The market divides into three distinct parts. The oldest type of synthetic CDO is the balance-sheet or regulatory capital deal. Banks started to issue these in 1997, realizing that they could reduce ...

Sharp market swings and rising bankruptcies have failed to dampen activity in a complex breed of credit derivatives that enable investors to take leveraged bets on company defaults. The net size of ...

Carla Tardi is a technical editor and digital content producer with 25+ years of experience at top-tier investment banks and money-management firms. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an ...

The threat of spread-widening continues to lurk just under the surface of benign credit market conditions. One of the unique selling points of a hybrid CDO, Jazz 3, managed by Axa and arranged by ...

Richard Gambel, head of the synthetic collateralized debt obligation group at Fitch Ratings in London, has left the agency. He could not be reached and it could not be immediately determined if he has ...

Under a €20bn programme, Omega Capital will issue 11 classes of notes rated from triple-A to triple-B by Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s. The notes are denominated in euros, US dollars and yen.

Kamakura Corporation released an important research paper on collateralized debt valuation that proves a common market assumption about correlations can lead to dramatically incorrect CDO valuations.

Aug 24 - OVERVIEW -- We have reviewed the ratings on all European transactions in the monthly Global SROC Report. -- We have taken various rating actions on 22 synthetic CDO tranches. -- All the ...