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Italian derivatives opera

10 February 2021Articlesinterest rate swaps, litigation, sovereign debt, swaptionsNick Dunbar

Italian courts are prosecuting former officials involved in derivatives terminated by Morgan Stanley nine years ago. But the US bank actually did Italy a favour, unlike the country’s other sovereign counterparties.

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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,…

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