(Bloomberg) U.S. banking industry groups are pressing regulators to clarify accounting for certain securities under the Volcker Rule after lenders complained the Dodd-Frank Act measure may force them ...

Jon Ogg has spent 12+ years as chair and co-owner of 24/7 Wall St. LLC. Author of numerous articles on the economy. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 years of experience in various ...

For the third time in just a few months, Merrill Lynch has taken a huge, multi-billion-dollar "writedown" on its investments in mortgage-backed securities. Banks are suffering big losses because of ...

If ProPublica's fine post-mortem on how Wall Street lost billions of dollars on collateralized debt obligations clarifies anything, it's this: Bernie Madoff was an amateur. Because the ruse big banks ...

The commercial mortgage market faces one of its toughest credit climates in more than a decade. The most complex corners of the securitized mortgage market are getting hammered. Products that flew off ...

Carla Tardi is a technical editor and digital content producer with 25+ years of experience at top-tier investment banks and money-management firms. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - With the subprime mortgage crisis making investors wary of collateralized debt obligations, or bonds secured by other bonds, Wall Street is cooking up even riskier deals offering ...

A fear too many greenhorn collateralized debt obligation managers have entered the market is concerning investors. But, with the current momentum they also think it’ll probably take a credit blowout ...

You have probably heard a lot about derivatives over the past two years. Derivatives are largely responsible for the fall of banking giants Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual.