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One fresh idea comes from Eric Dinallo, the New York state insurance superintendent, who in a March 3 Wall Street Journal op-ed suggested that insurance commissioners mediate the ratings process, since insurers are among the largest buyers of rated bonds. Regulators would collect a fee from insurance outfits and...
Securities-lending is supposed to be a sort of Christmas club of high finance. Companies like insurers, which own tons of equities and Treasury bonds that they are holding long term, lend them out short term, often overnight, to borrowers who need the shares to fulfill other commitments. For instance...
The plan is intended to relieve banks of their toxic assets - including such securities as subprime mortgage bonds - through purchases by a public-private investment fund, heavily backed by government money. But versions of the plan have faced challenges from the start. Last year, when he was head of the...
In 1909, John Moody became the first financial analyst to assign letter grades to railroad bonds, giving investors an easier way to evaluate the rail companies' debt. It was the beginning of one of the most powerful forces in modern capitalism. Today a small club of bond-rating agencies, led...
When will the red ink at Freddie stop? It's hard to say. In its most recent annual report, the company said that if it had to mark all its assets to the price similar bonds are trading for in the market, the company's net worth would sink by...