Simply sign up to the US companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. So, Paulson & Co went to Goldman Sachs and . . . ? Paulson wanted to short – that is, bet that some assets would ...

“This is the first time an Asian ex-Japan investment-grade synthetic CDO has been completed,” Greg Donohugh, senior vice-president, head of Lehman’s CDO group for Asia ex-Japan, told RiskNews. The ...

Collateralized debt obligations have been a part of the structured credit landscape for over a decade. In recent years, new-issue volumes in the cash markets have risen considerably. Global cash and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Felix Salmon at Portfolio’s market movers blog has a very thorough post on super-senior tranches of CDOs, ...