July 20, 2010
Goldman Sachs put one headache behind it by settling with U.S. securities regulators, but it looks like a tempting deep pocket for banks and hedge funds that bought subprime-backed mortgage securities. A day after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission …
April 30, 2010
The blow-up of a $1 billion subprime mortgage-linked security called Timberwolf 1 may have provided Goldman Sachs Group with an early clue about trouble to come at insurance giant American International Group . It may be just coincidence, but there …
April 16, 2010
Jeffery Stone and his wife Janette Diller Stone, one-time operators of a now-defunct New York investment firm called Crescent Fund, are not on any government most wanted list. And they aren’t exactly hiding, either. But the former Greenwich, Connecticut, residents …
April 6, 2010
The former head of the American International Group division that nearly bankrupted the giant insurer isn’t out of the woods yet. Joseph Cassano, who ran London-based AIG Financial Products and oversaw its disastrous accumulation of credit default swaps, looks likely …
February 1, 2010
A controversial regulatory filing detailing the federal bailout of American International Group Inc. could put the spotlight back on the former executive who headed the division most responsible for the insurer’s near collapse in September 2008. The five-page filing raises …
January 25, 2010
U.S. securities regulators originally treated the New York Federal Reserve’s bid to keep secret many of the details of the American International Group bailout like a request to protect matters of national security, according to emails obtained by Reuters. The …
January 13, 2010
Information about the American International Group bailout that regulators agreed to keep secret may reveal which banks held some of the worst performing mortgage-related securities at the time of the rescue. Reuters reported Monday that the Securities and Exchange Commission …