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.

The 35-year-old Citigroup Inc. director has spent the past two years meeting clients, speaking at industry panels and becoming the face of a resurgent market for synthetic CDOs -- complex ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...