Expect[ed] Loss

While the rating agencies have been actively downgrading bonds across almost all sectors , we thought it may be fun to compare the performa...

An interesting week. Two developments emerged concerning possible behind-the-scenes activities in two of the largest markets – foreign exch...

Since the global financial crisis, all sorts of investigations have gone on in the financial markets, and some very interesting chats have ...

Alec Baldwin instructed his henchmen in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) to "ABC."   Always Be Closing . ABC  v  ABB If he were ...

If Wells Fargo didn't already have enough to worry about, last week things got a little bit more “interesting” with the filing, against...

“Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they res...

You’re probably not alone in thinking you could have done a better job running one of the banks.   Now you can see if that’s true, than...

We received a couple of calls late last week about the securitization structure (or catastrophe or "cat" bond) deal that Credit S...

The brokers/dealers have had their fair share of scrutiny among the recent revelations in the high-frequency trading (HFT) saga. Amo...

In 2002, Warren Buffet called them financial weapons of mass destruction. In 2008, they triggered a severe national recession. And now, in ...

There's been some generally miserable news floating about about big bank trading levels. In a Forbes article , the team at Trefis p...

From complaints (and amended complaints) and settlements we were able to string together this table of potential litigation costs that may ...

This is a popular litigation-related piece on our website we thought we'd share through this post (pdf version available here ) - enjoy ...

Hello readers, and a belated welcome to 2012! In yesterday's FT Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit advocates for heightened transparency acro...

“Fortuna's wheel had turned on humanity, crushing its collarbone, smashing its skull, twisting its torso, puncturing its pelvis, sorrow...

The Abacus CDO story of 2010 brought to the fore a worrisome scenario in which it could be argued that the arranging bank (Goldman Sachs) pl...