Wednesday 3 September 2008

Good insurer bad insurer

Lawyers to your keyboards. Ambac is pushing ahead with the good insurer/bad insurer model. From Bloomberg:
Ambac rose as much as 15 percent in late trading as Wisconsin regulators, which have jurisdiction over the New York-based company, approved a plan to move $850M out of Ambac Assurance Corp. into the new business, according to a statement today. Ambac is seeking to obtain an AAA credit rating ... for Connie Lee.
Apart from the obvious questions -- who gets the capital, who gets the muni derivatives, and why anyone thinks structured finance counterparties might be remotely comfortable with all this -- don't we have a bad enough history with two syllable first name one syllable second name companies? I mean, Indy Mac, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, ... Connie Lee -- it is not encouraging, is it?

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