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Word: vereinsbank (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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 Baden-Wuerttemberg. But city officials say BVG's advisor, J.P. Morgan, suggested the transit company spread the risk by insuring the deal through a collateralized debt obligation, or CDO, backed by a consortium of some 150 banks and insurers that included AIG and Lehman Brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: German Cities Suffer in the U.S. Financial Crisis | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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