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Argentina's bullying tactics on YPF are not going to win it any friends, particularly in Spain. But with little foreign investment to be withdrawn and already low expectations among emerging market investors, the longer term impact is likely to be limited.
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By John Bella, managing director and head of the commerical ABS group at Fitch Ratings, and Sean Egeran, director -
The bank regulatory capital consists of common stock, preferred stock, subordinated debt and hybrids, such as trust preferred and convertibles.
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Banks have reduced lending. The Federal Reserve Bank reported bank lending to small business is at its lowest level in years.
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Justice Nicholas Hamblen of the Commercial Court in London recently handed down a judgment in which he dismissed all claims brought against Barclays Bank.
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The trend in recent years has been the near-complete disappearance of non-agency mortgage-backed securities issuance.
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This is an extremely broad topic. While most regulators, Congress and the press know ratings agencies don't have a good record recently with regard to mortgage-backed securities, they mostly don't realize how well ratings for asset-backed securities held up during the recent credit crisis.
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The "Great Recession," the moniker now attached to our most recent economic downturn, has put a bright spotlight on many financial areas of our economy that the average citizen has no ability to grasp.
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Lehman Brothers Special Financing Inc.'s pending appeal against the judgments of the U.K. High Court and the Court of Appeal in the so-called "flip clause cases," concerning the enforceability of flip clauses, is scheduled to be begin with Belmont Park Investments Pty Limited (Belmont Park Investments Pty Limited v BNY Corporate Trustee Services Limited and Lehman Brothers Special Financing Inc (UKSC 2009/0222)) on March 1, 2011.
