Tuesday 2 June 2009

CDO waterfall errors

CDOs are complicated. In particular, many of them have waterfall structures that include diversion tests - if x then tranche y gets some money, otherwise it goes to tranche z. Unsurprisingly, trustees sometimes get these tests wrong. Expected loss has found an example: I do encourage you to read it if you have an interest in either structured finance or operational risk.

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