All the Devils Are Here [227]
Bair, Sheila
Baker, Richard
Bankers Trust, swap deal lawsuit
Bank of America
Countrywide acquired by
Merrill Lynch acquired by
subprime branches, closing
Barnes, Roy
Bartiromo, Maria
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, capital reserves rule
Basis Yield Alpha Fund
Bear Stearns
ABS index
Bank of America lawsuit
CDOs
foreclosures, plan to prevent
hedge funds, collapse of
High-Grade Structured Credit Fund
High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Limited Partnership
J.P. Morgan acquisition of
Beattie, Richard
Behavioral economics
Beneficial
Bensinger, Steve
Bernanke, Ben
Berson, David
Birnbaum, Josh
BlackRock
Black-Scholes formula
Black swans
Blankfein, Lloyd
during collapse
compensation from Goldman
Goldman Sachs under
Blue sky laws, MBSs exemption from
Blum, Michael
Blumenthal Stephen
BNC Mortgage
BNP Paribas
Bolten, Joshua
Bomchill, Mark
Bond, Kit
Bond ratings
CDOs
and credit enhancements
failures, examples of
public trust in
ratings shopping
system of
for tranches
Value at Risk (VaR) applied to
See also Moody’s; Standard & Poor’s
Bonuses, post-TARP
Born, Brooksley
biographical information
derivatives, regulatory efforts
style/personality of
Bothwell, James
Bowsher, Charles
Bradbury, Darcy
Brandt, Amy
Breit, John
Brennan, Mary Elizabeth
Brickell, Mark
Brightpoint fraud
Broad Index Secured Trust Offering (BISTRO)
AIG FP credit protection
features of
Broderick, Craig
Bronfman, Edward and Peter
Bruce, Kenneth
Buffett, Warren
Burry, Michael
Bush, George W.
homeownership initiatives
Paulson appointment
war with Fannie/Freddie
Buxton, George
Callan, Erin
Calomiris, Chris
Calyon
Canfield, Anne
Capital reserves
Basel I loophole
Basel I rules
and bond ratings
credit default swap as substitute
Fannie Mae
Fed requirements
risk-based capital requirements
and subprimes, FDIC recommendations
Cassano, Joe
and AIG-FP collapse
AIG-FP under
biographical information
and BISTRO
compensation
negative basis adjustment theory
and PNC fine
risk-aversion of
style/personality of
Catchings, Waddill
Chanos, Jim
Chatterjee, Debashish
Cheyne Capital Management
Christensen, Arne
Cioffi, Ralph
and Bear hedge fund collapse
indictment of
Citigroup
Ameriquest portfolio, servicing
Citicorp Mortgage
SIV debt acquired by
Cityscape
Clarkson, Brian, and corruption of Moody’s
Clinton, Bill
derivatives regulation, neglect of
homeownership initiative
Coffin, Charles
Cohan, William
Cohen & Company
Cohn, Gary
Collateral calls, to AIG
Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)
Bear Stearns
BISTRO as precursor to
collapse of market (2007)
danger and warning about
downgrading (2002-2003)
downgrading (2007)
features of
high ratings, reasons for
hybrid CDOs
Merrill Lynch
multisector CDOs
synthetic CDOs
tranches
See also specific instruments
Collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), features of
Collateral triggers
Commercial paper
Committee to Save the World
Commodities Futures Modernization Act (2000)
Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), derivatives, regulatory efforts
Community Reinvestment Act
Conforming mortgages
Fannie market for
features of
Consolidated Supervised Entities (CSE)
Constantine, Thomas
Correlation trading
Corrigan, Gerald
Corzine, Jon
Counterparty
Countrywide Financial
balance sheet risk
as bank holding company
Bank of America acquisition of
collapse of
conforming mortgage market
consumer complaints/lawsuits
dangerous products of
establishment of
exception pricing system
Fannie buys loans from
founder/CEO. See Mozilo, Angelo
independent brokers, use of
low-income persons, initiatives for
no-down-payment loans
presidents. See Kurland, Stanford; Sambol, Dave
profitability of
refinancings by
SEC fraud charges
Spitzer investigation
stock, decline of
subprime mortgages
underwriting guidelines, loosening
Cox, Christopher
Cox, Prentiss
Credit default swaps
AIG-FP
BISTRO as precursor to
first
mortgage-based. See Collateralized debt obligations