Structured Finance

MBIA is trying to separate its public finance business from its structured finance portfolio, the home of its mortgage business.

It was one of the first banks to be bailed out, in the summer of 2007, and its reliance on investments in structured finance was extreme.

The biggest concern is structured finance, where the agencies now depend on a few large investment banks for much of their revenue.

Securitization, as a special disposal of non-performing assets, with its low-cost, structured finance, and operation has been attended.

A couple of years ago, an investment banker berated me for using the word "murky" to describe the world of structured finance.

Hence the fact that, in this tribal culture, nobody reined in the excesses of the structured finance teams at Citi and Merrill.

The complexity of structured finance made it difficult to know how losses would cascade down the ladder of investors in securitised assets.

One of its contracts is a seven-year, $95m policy backing a foreign bank's structured-finance business in Brazil.

The problems that triggered yesterday's statement relate to a small sector of the structured finance world.

London's supporters say that it surpasses New York in structured finance and new stock listings.

Bankers and lawyers in Cayman work with the lawyers of American multinationals on structured-finance transactions.

This was structured finance, the culmination of two decades of quants on Wall Street.

In the rarefied air of structured finance, coming up with a rating is fraught with challenges.

Offering merger and acquisition and valuation services, structured finance and general advice to middle market companies.

In structured finance, as elsewhere, they say they manage their businesses carefully to avoid conflicts and to maintain objectivity.

For instance, complex structured finance and debt products that are common in the US and Europe are only just being introduced into Asia.

As a consequence, structured finance had remained a niche and highly bespoke practice throughout the 1990s.

And confidence in credit-card asset-backed securities is pretty firm despite paralysis in other corners of structured finance.

Richard Cadigan, another Partner, is an attorney with 10 years experience in structured finance.

Financiers and structured finance professionals were aware of the negative potential of risky loans.

Furthermore, structured finance's dependence on leverage and illiquid assets has left it prone to crisis.

They bought much of the short-term debt that propped up structured finance.

Much of structured finance is uncharted territory for litigation.

Debt and stock markets are virtually shut, merger volume is down by 28%, and whole lines of structured finance are closed for good.

As a result, many investors say, ratings in structured finance are hard to corroborate independently.

The credit rating of the structured finance insurer was slashed to non-investment grade as a result.

If the fiasco of structured finance has taught us one thing, it is that risk is not adequately captured by one simple measure.

As and when the market for structured finance revives , it will be smaller and less rewarding than before.

In FY07, IFC mobilized an additional $3. 9 billion through loan participations, structured finance, and parallel loans.

Moody's, for example, made 44 per cent of its revenue last year from structured finance deals.

structured finance is the fastest - growing segment of moody ' s business