Those structured products have fallen on hard times as the mortgage sector sinks deeper into crisis.
The catalyst: ratings agency downgrades on structured products like collateralized debt obligations containing subprime-tainted mortgage collateral.
Later, it hopes to offer a swathe of data to buyers of structured products.
AAA-rated structured products ahead of international implementation of the Basel 2 regulations on bank capital.
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Revenues from selling and trading structured products are almost two-thirds lower than in 2006.
Rather than growing by rating structured products, most firms have stretched the business to small companies and beyond.
Hedge funds, private equity and traders in structured products are also moving in.
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For many years, banks have sold a wide variety of structured products.
Structured products like collateralized debt obligations have lost billions in value as the loans underlying their complex structures deteriorate.
The charges against Goldman are the first brought by a new SEC investigative group looking into the structured products market.
The FSA is expected to simply ban some products, such complex structured products, for retail investors, as Belgium has already.
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The most sought after candidates at banks are people who specialize in derivatives and other structured products, as well as merger advisors.
Structured products sound appealing at first , but they are inextricably tied to the credit risk of the bank issuing the note.
Banks may prefer less oversight, more leverage and the ability to slice and dice these risks into structured products of all sorts.
The organization has done some quality work on retirement security and published an independent research project I wrote last year on structured products.
Overall, the number of structured products that provide income grew by 15% in 2011 from a year earlier, to 5, 532, according to data provider StructuredRetailProducts.com.
The firm prides itself on a low-profile image catering to institutional clients, with a strength in fixed-income and structured products but expanding expertise in equities.
We expect the strong brand-name of ACA as well as our market-leading position in synthetic CDOs of structured products to result in a successful offering.
Apple's stock plunge last week has also stung investors who bought complex, bond-like "structured products" tied to the shares, on which losses could top 30%.
Before the monolines ran into trouble with exposure to credit derivatives and structured products in late 2007, they enjoyed a robust business insuring municipal debt.
European banks, including Deutsche Bank, UBS , Barclays, and Royal Bank of Scotland, have been especially aggressive in building their trading and structured products groups in New York.
Derivatives and structured products are generally housed in investment banking divisions.
Hedge funds, private-equity firms and other parts of the shadow banking system should go, along with over-the-counter derivatives (OTCs), collateralised-debt obligations (CDOs) and other nefarious structured products.
And some institutions, bankers allege, were parking illiquid structured products in their trading books to attract a lower capital charge (regulators now plan to beef these charges up).
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To limit future risk assumed by financial intermediaries, new regulatory reforms are imposing greater checks on proprietary investments, particularly in structured products, hedge funds and private equity funds.
The bank is facing scrutiny of its structured products business.
Commercial banks that went whole-hog into the structured products and mortgage markets over the last few years, Citigroup also comes to mind, are juggling bloated balance sheets and mounting bad loans.
Instead, throughout the 1980s the SEC routinely issued exemptions from regulation under the applicable law, the Investment Company Act, for all sorts of structured products with remarkably little analysis.
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IKB, on the other hand, was an active and eager investor in the structured products Goldman was packaging and selling at the height of the bubble, the lawyers argue.
Think unlisted real estate investment trusts and structured products.
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