Posts belonging to Category Credit Default Swaps
Posted by Page PerryonJune 3, 2011
Simply stated, senior investors (in fact, all investors) should be very leery of high-risk structured products. Author John Wasik, in conjunction with Demos and The Nation Institute, has published a white paper entitled “How Safe Are Your Savings? How Complex Derivative Products Imperil Seniors’ Retirement Security.” The paper’s focus is on structured products and how […]
Categories: Asset Backed Securities, Bank of America, Barclays, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Early Retirement Scams, Elder Abuses, Goldman Sachs, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, J. P. Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Keegan, Morgan Stanley, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Options, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, Structured Notes, UBS
Posted by Page PerryonJune 2, 2011
The number one rated analyst covering brokerage firms, Brad Hintz, is telling his clients that if Goldman Sachs committed any crimes by misleading its clients about mortgage-backed securities, the firm will will be offered a “slap on the wrist” deal called “deferred prosecution” because it is viewed as “too big to fail,” according to Christine […]
Categories: Asset Backed Securities, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Economy, Goldman Sachs, Investment Advisers, Investor Rights, Market Developments, Mortgage Backed Securities, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, UBS
Posted by Page PerryonMay 25, 2011
FINRA CEO Richard Ketchum recently stated that structured products are “areas of concern” for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”), according to a Bloomberg article by Jesse Hamilton and Alexis Leondis entitled “Finra’s Ketchum Says Structured Products Are ‘Areas of Concern.’” If FINRA is concerned, it better act fast. “Sales of structured products rose 46 […]
Categories: Bank of America, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Elder Abuses, Goldman Sachs, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, J. P. Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Market Developments, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Regulatory Developments, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, Structured Notes, UBS, Wachovia
Posted by Page PerryonMay 23, 2011
Just when Wall Street banks thought they were was going to get off scot free, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is launching an investigation into the very heart of fraudulent scheme that led to the financial crisis. This has the potential to be the “Mother of All Nightmares” for the banks, according to a […]
Categories: Asset Backed Securities, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Investigations, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Regulatory Developments, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Structured Notes
Posted by Page PerryonMay 9, 2011
JP Morgan says that it is in “advanced” negotiations to settle its part of a broad U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into how mortgage-linked securities were packaged and sold as the housing market unraveled, according to a Bloomberg article by Joshua Gallu and David Scheer entitled “JPMorgan Is in ‘Advanced’ Negotiations to Resolve CDO […]
Categories: Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, J. P. Morgan Chase, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation
Posted by Page PerryonMay 5, 2011
A California federal court has unsealed a whistleblower suit accusing AIG, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, and Societe Generale of perpetrating a fraudulent scheme to dupe the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the U.S. Department of the Treasury into issuing AIG more than $137 billion in bailout loans during the 2008 financial […]
Categories: Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Deutsche Bank, Financial Industry Whistleblowers, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation
Posted by Page PerryonApril 15, 2011
Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the U.S. Senate panel that investigated the causes of the financial crisis, said that federal prosecutors should consider bringing perjury charges against Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and others who testified before Congress last year, according to a Bloomberg article entitled “Goldman Sachs Misled Congress After Duping Clients, Levin Says.”
Categories: Asset Backed Securities, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation
Posted by Page PerryonApril 15, 2011
Goldman Sachs manipulated the subprime mortgage derivative market in 2007 for its own benefit, to the disadvantage of its clients, according to a Bloomberg article by Christine Harper and Joshua Gallu entitled “Goldman Traders Tried to Manipulate Market in 2007, Report Says,” which cites a U.S. Senate report.
Categories: Asset Backed Securities, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Goldman Sachs, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Structured Notes
Posted by Page PerryonApril 15, 2011
A 650-page Senate report on the causes of the financial crisis, citing internal documents and private communications of bank executives, regulators, credit ratings agencies and investors, identifies culprits whose business practices were rife with conflicts and deception, according to a New York Times article by Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story called “Naming Culprits in the […]
Categories: Asset Backed Securities, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Structured Notes
Posted by Page PerryonApril 4, 2011
Gretchen Morgenson reports that the battle for the safety and soundness of U.S. financial markets is far from won, despite the Dodd-Frank financial reform act, as Wall Street lobbies Congress to relax certain key provisions of that act in an attempt to restart the “assembly line for selling toxic waste to investors.” See “Note to […]
Categories: Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Economy, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, Structured Notes