Tag Archives: collateralised debt obligations


Case will throw light on funds before Bear Stearns collapsed

August 21, 2009 : Permalink

Daily Telegraph – The funds collapsed as billions of dollars of bets made on mortgage-backed bonds and collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) unravelled, and when the time came to try to sell some of the funds’ sub-prime mortgages, no one wanted […]

SFO to investigate banks over mis-selling of complex products

August 4, 2009 : Permalink

Citywire.co.uk – The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is to probe UK banks for evidence that complex financial products were mis-sold to consumers before the recession hit. SFO director Richard Alderman plans to investigate the sale of complicated financial instruments like […]