• Home
  • About Risky Finance
  • Nick Dunbar
    • The Devil’s Derivatives
    • Inventing Money
    • About Nick Dunbar
  • Follow us
subscribe
Login
Menu
  • Visualisation tools
    • Currencies
    • Corporate bonds
    • UK Local government
    • Asset Management
    • Sovereign
    • Banking
    • Equities
    • Inflation
  • Articles
    • Stocks
    • Pensions
    • Banks
    • Credit
    • Technology
    • Economics
    • Municipal Finance
    • Funds
  • Reviews & research
    • Book Reviews
Homecredit ratings

BNP Paribas piles on the senior tranches

8 October 2019BanksCLOs, credit ratings, securitisationNick Dunbar

The French banking giant more than doubled its securitisation exposure in the past 12 months, filings show. Does the ballooning CLO portfolio pose a risk?

Continue reading..

Burning down the house

7 February 2015Structured productsCDOs, credit ratings, litigationNick Dunbar

Ten years after Lehman, nothing evokes the crisis better than the plunge in collateralised debt obligations that was a key indicator of systemic risk at the time. This article includes a visualisation of a unique ratings agency database that will be kept on this site as a matter of public record. They rated every deal,…

Continue reading..

Join our mailing list

  • Recent Articles
  • Recent Charts
  • How Japan is changing, in...
    Japan's financial markets are undergoing profound ...
  • Playing MSCI’s quarterl...
    Every quarter, MSCI's index rebalancing announceme...
  • How the S&P 500 moved int...
    Two new visualisations show how AI transformed the...
  • iBoxx top movers
  • EU bank corporate loan exposure by country
  • Interest rate benchmark rigging fines & prosecutions
  • Quarterly R&D expense for companies with AI activity
  • Central bank bond holdings as a percentage of outstanding debt
  • Most Viewed
  • Most Commented
  • Brexit and HSBC’s risk reduction bonuses

  • High yield’s retrenchment

  • Autogeddon

  • MetLife’s risk failings reveal regulatory weakness

  • The Rise of Carry

  • How JP Morgan broke the repo market
  • How Covid-19 infected the corporate bond market
  • Deutsche Bank and the Big Short
  • Giants of the S&P500
  • Nature Bites Back In New, Messy World of Derivatives

  • Contact
  • Help
  • Contribute
  • Terms & Conditions

Copyright © 2026, Risky Finance . All rights reserved.