A synthetic CDO is one type of collateralized debt obligation. It is structured with non-cash derivatives such as swaps, options, and insurance contracts.

Synthetic CDO Issuance Down Sharply in Q1. Jul. 18, 2008 4:29 PM ET. Research Recap. 453 Followers. Follow. Issuance of synthetic collateralized debt obligations totalled just $47 billion in the ...

Synthetic CDOs are an advanced form of CDOs. While the underlying assets of regular CDOs are traditional fixed-income assets, such as loans, mortgages, and bonds, ...

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.

These synthetic CDO's that GS was selling have the characteristic that for every buyer there is a matching seller. GS happened to be that seller, but Felix, ...

Earlier this month, we got the news that a couple of Wall Street banks were trying to drum up interest in a synthetic collateralized debt obligation, or CDO, the kind of so-called “weapon of ...

The Wall Street Journal reports: 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 ...

If Credit Market Tightens, CDO Boom Could Go Bust This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such ...

I suspect the stock of outstanding synthetic credit derivatives -- $ 1500 b in synthetic CDOs in 2004 v. $300 b or so in 2001, according to Mark Whitehouse of the Wall Street Journal -- is the ...

Bloomberg News reports that Jia Chen, a 35-year-old director at the bank, has spent two years between New York and London hawking synthetic CDOs to potential investors — and promoting returns as ...

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 ...

-- All the transactions are European synthetic CDO transactions. April 20 - After running its month-end SROC (synthetic rated overcollateralization) figures, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services ...