Wall Street New Ways to Slice and Dice Loans
Watch Out: Wall Street Is Finding New Ways to Slice and Dice Loans
The people who brought you CDOs and other financing esoterica are back with SRTs, NAV loans and more
Wall Street is cranking up its complex bond machine again.
Bankers say the capital-call ABS and similar innovations help them safely serve clients while bringing in rich fees.
But such efforts have preceded market excess in the past, to put it mildly.
Skeptics see parallels between CDOs (the collateralized debt obligations that helped fuel the financial crisis in 2008) and the growing use of SRTs (synthetic risk transfers), NAV loans (based on net asset values) and more.
The shiny new products that banks are inventing have yet to be tested through market cycles.
“We’ve never seen these types of capital-call loans securitized in public markets, so there’s not a lot of data on how they’ll perform,” said Neil Aggarwal, head of securitized products at Reams Asset Management, which manages about $29 billion of debt investments.
The firm makes fees from extending the loans to fund managers such as Apollo Global Management and KKR, and more when it bundles up the loans and turns them into bonds. That conversion also moves them off Goldman’s books, freeing up cash that banking regulators force it to reserve against potential losses.
Wall Street Journal 23 October 2024
This isn't just a mortgage or housing crisis.
At the center of this still-unfolding disaster is the collateralized debt obligation, or CDO.
Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, December 10, 2007
https://www.internetional.se/finchaos.htm
Conduits or structured investment vehicles (SIVs),
Credit-default swaps, Monolines and Disintermediation
https://www.internetional.se/bailoutsiv.htm
Plunge Protection Team (PPT)
https://www.internetional.se/freshstart.htm#crudele
The boom and bust of Mervyn King
It looks like a powerful admission of error on his part. But...
When any of us say "if I knew then what I know now", we are excusing ourselves, rather than apologising.
Robert Peston, BBC Business editor, 3 May 2012
Tillbaka till Wall Street och Stockholm 23 oktober 2024
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/10/wall-street-och-stockholm-23-oktober.html
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