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In the case of BVG, the insurance was provided by Hypo-Vereinsbank, the Landesbank Berlin (LBB) and Credit Suisse. The LBB was privatized in 2007. Expecting that LBB would be downgraded by ratings agencies, BVG was planning to insure its assets through another state-owned bank in Germany, the Landesbank...
Honestly, though, it doesn't matter. These aren't the '70s, when directors like Sam Peckinpah, Ken Russell and Bernardo Bertolucci had a more serious and reckless sense of cinematic adventure than filmmakers do now, when they took an X rating (as the NC-17 was called then) to insure...
It's a long-established practice for medical providers such as hospitals and physicians to charge uninsured patients higher prices than patients with health coverage for the same care. (Insurers can negotiate cheaper prices through contracts and because of volume.) What the new study suggests, though, is that providers often...
That hedge-fund-like unit built up a portfolio of $2.7 trillion in derivatives. AIG FP eagerly offered to insure billions of dollars in derivative portfolios, building up potential liabilities many times its capacity to pay out if the portfolios defaulted. Few financial experts ever imagined the scope of the...
Although a CDS is, in its simplest form, an insurance policy, AIG was selling something far more exotic. Say you buy a house and insure it. The insurer doesn't offer the same policy on your house to everyone else in the neighborhood; if it did and your house went...