How UBS incubated a CDO timebomb

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How UBS incubated a CDO timebomb

UBS’s unprecedented mea culpa to its shareholders on its huge writedowns, published last Friday, reveals an unpalatable truth. UBS was not just careless and unlucky. Its risk control over the collateralised debt obligations desk was reckless and shoddy. While UBS was not alone in this, its failure was staggering.

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