collateralized debt obligation
description: a type of structured asset-backed security whose value and payments are derived from a portfolio of fixed-income underlying assets.
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How the City Really Works: The Definitive Guide to Money and Investing in London's Square Mile
by Alexander Davidson · 1 Apr 2008 · 368pp · 32,950 words
in another. We focus on concerns about credit risk, triggered by defaults in US sub-prime mortgages, which are packaged in the bond market as collateralised debt obligations and are hedged by derivatives. The commercial insurance market now claims that it is underwriting more cautiously than in the past. In this book
Modernising Money: Why Our Monetary System Is Broken and How It Can Be Fixed
by Andrew Jackson (economist) and Ben Dyson (economist) · 15 Nov 2012 · 363pp · 107,817 words
banking made possible by securitisation. Securitisation is the practice of pooling multiple loans (including mortgages) together, and then selling these consolidated loans to investors as Collateralised Debt Obligations (CDOs). The bank receives an upfront payment, and the investors receive a stream of income over the life of the financial instrument. The bank
Other People's Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?
by John Kay · 2 Sep 2015 · 478pp · 126,416 words
economic stability. In retrospect, the critical development during this period was the growth in trade in asset-backed securities, especially mortgage-backed securities, and subsequently collateralised debt obligations, between financial institutions. A false belief in the security provided by such packaging stimulated demand for these assets. Further reassurance appeared to be provided
Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice
by Pierre Vernimmen, Pascal Quiry, Maurizio Dallocchio, Yann le Fur and Antonio Salvi · 16 Oct 2017 · 1,544pp · 391,691 words
, except when it is cov-lite (covenant light). When the debt amount is high, the loan will be syndicated to several banks (see Chapter 25). Collateralised debt obligation (CDO) funds have been created, which subscribed or bought tranches of LBO debt whose shareholders are mainly insurance companies, hedge funds and pension funds
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy
by Mervyn King · 3 Mar 2016 · 464pp · 139,088 words
debt – hence their name ‘derivatives’. To increase their yield, banks created instruments that comprised highly risky and often opaque structures with obscure names such as ‘collateralised debt obligations’. The average rate of return on a risky asset is higher than that on a safe asset, such as a US or UK government
The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer
by Nicholas Shaxson · 10 Oct 2018 · 482pp · 149,351 words
times and spoke rapturously of the ‘massively favourable trends’ of easy credit, along with ‘public/private partnerships, specialised credit-based funds and funds of funds, collateralised debt obligations, collateralised loan obligations, credit default swaps, special purpose vehicles’ and many other mechanisms for taking on risk. Those were the very instruments that were
The Trade Lifecycle: Behind the Scenes of the Trading Process (The Wiley Finance Series)
by Robert P. Baker · 4 Oct 2015
systems quickly and accurately. Post In an age where communication happens instantaneously, it may seem curious that some trades are still executed by post. Cashflow collateralised debt obligations, for example, might have contracts running to hundreds of pages, comprising legal ISDA agreements and precisely defining complicated cash waterfalls for the movement of
Barometer of Fear: An Insider's Account of Rogue Trading and the Greatest Banking Scandal in History
by Alexis Stenfors · 14 May 2017 · 312pp · 93,836 words
there or in memory alone. ABBREVIATIONS ACI Association Cambiste Internationale BBA British Bankers’ Association BBAIRS BBA Interest Rate Settlement BIS Bank for International Settlements CDO collateralised debt obligation CDOR Canadian Dollar Offered Rate CDS credit default swap CEO chief executive officer CIA Central Intelligence Agency CIBOR Copenhagen Interbank Offered Rate CME Chicago
Where Does Money Come From?: A Guide to the UK Monetary & Banking System
by Josh Ryan-Collins, Tony Greenham, Richard Werner and Andrew Jackson · 14 Apr 2012
side. Since capital usually is less than a tenth of assets, which include bank loans, sovereign debt, and derivatives such as Exchange Traded Funds* and Collateralised Debt Obligations† a 10 per cent default of loans would wipe out all capital and render the bank insolvent. A smaller loss would leave it in
The Dealmaker: Lessons From a Life in Private Equity
by Guy Hands · 4 Nov 2021 · 341pp · 107,933 words
Citigroup’s Consumer Lending Group, had begun warning the board that they had a problem. Like most other financial conglomerates, Citigroup held massive portfolios of collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) and mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) – the majority of which were subprime. The company had used elaborate mathematical risk models that looked at mortgages
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