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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...