LONDON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The European Securitisation Forum, an industry lobby group, on Wednesday released a draft format for standardised reporting on European collateralised debt obligations (CDOs ...

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In the early days of its evolution, the CDO market was dominated principally by balance sheet instruments, which refer to transactions in which assets are removed from the issuer's balance sheet, ...

The commercial mortgage market faces one of its toughest credit climates in more than a decade. The most complex corners of the securitized mortgage market are getting hammered. Products that flew off ...

You have probably heard a lot about derivatives over the past two years. Derivatives are largely responsible for the fall of banking giants Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - With the subprime mortgage crisis making investors wary of collateralized debt obligations, or bonds secured by other bonds, Wall Street is cooking up even riskier deals offering ...

While aficionados of the structured credit market know all about the boom in collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) in Europe and the US, less headline-grabbing - but no less dramatic - has been the ...