Citi, Bank of America and JPMorgan will fail to persuade several banks to participate in the initial idea of a master-liquidity enhancement conduit. The US banks – which are the biggest sponsors of ...

A new type of structured finance vehicle, the SIV-Lite, has made its debut on the capital markets stage, and it seems to be taking the market by storm. The SIV-Lite (Structured Investment Vehicle-Lite ...

Retail investors seeking diversification through alternative investments may not have considered structured/asset-backed credit, believing it’s only for institutions. But that’s not the case. While ...

Today, most retail investors follow the “asset allocation” model of previous generations utilizing a combination of cash, public stocks and bonds. Many financial professionals, in fact, continue to ...

Standard & Poor’s has downgraded Orion Finance Corp., a structured investment vehicle held by the state’s Short Term Investment Pool, to its lowest rating after it failed to make payments owed to ...

NEW YORK, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service on Friday slashed its ratings on about $6 billion of debt issued by Victoria Finance, a structured investment vehicle sponsored by Ceres Capital ...