Friday, October 10, 2008

CDO's nd CDS's explained


Crisis explainer: Uncorking CDOs from Marketplace on Vimeo.


Untangling credit default swaps from Marketplace on Vimeo.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Paddy - thank you for the simple illustrative example of CDOs. I'm interested to find out how the second "bottle" is allowed to have AAA rating tranches when the securities that make up its contents are a pooling of BB securities from the first "bottle"?
Many thanks in advance