End of an era as Cheyne SIV finally liquidated

Cheyne Capital’s structured investment vehicle (SIV) has finally been liquidated, marking another post-crisis milestone. Cheyne Finance was the first SIV to be forced into wind-down in August 2007, as frozen commercial paper markets stopped it raising funding, and worries about subprime forced it to breach a ‘major capital loss’ trigger and start selling assets. It then entered a restructuring and has been in receivership ever since 2008.