A synthetic CDO is a collateralized debt obligation that invests in credit default swaps or other non-cash assets to gain exposure to fixed income.

That discussion preceded the televised discussion of synthetic CDOs last Tuesday. You start to rationalize the great social value in CDOs, but then the "synthetic" part demands your attention.

CDOs are structured financial instruments that consist of bundled assets and loan products. When comprised of mortgages they are known as mortgage-backed securities.

These synthetic CDO's that GS was selling have the characteristic that for every buyer there is a matching seller.

LONDON—The synthetic CDO, a villain of the global financial crisis, is back. A decade ago, investors’ bad bets on collateralized debt obligations helped fuel the crisis. Billed as safe, they ...

The synthetic CDO market – particularly the corporate synthetic CDO market – ironically the place where super-senior technology originated, has not yet collapsed.

More on: United States Budget, Debt, and Deficits Trade I suspect the stock of outstanding synthetic credit derivatives -- $ 1500 b in synthetic CDOs i… ...

The synthetic CDO, a villain of the global financial crisis, is back….In the U.S., the CDO market sunk steadily in the years after the financial crisis but has been fairly flat since 2014. In ...

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

Feeling a little insecure about our grasp of Collateralized Debt Obligations, we dropped in on the Bond Market Association forum on the subject. Talk about jumping into the deep end of the pool! One ...

OVERVIEW -- We raised our ratings on 35 tranches from 23 U.S. synthetic CDO transactions and removed 31 from CreditWatch positive. -- We lowered our ratings on seven tranches from four U.S ...

Issuance of synthetic collateralized debt obligations totalled just $47 billion in the first quarter, about one tenth of that seen in the first quarter of 2007, according to CreditSights. In its ...