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Investment Fund Files Suit to Unwind MBIA Restructuring
Capital Partners LP and Fir Tree Partners -- in U.S. District Court in New York on behalf of funds that own securities guarantied by MBIA. In February, MBIA announced it would ...
Source: BestWire Date: April 7, 2009
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Buffett Warns Insured Muni Bonds Could Be Next Shoe to Drop
Ambac Financial Group Inc. and Financial Guaranty Insurance Co. all kindly said thanks, but no thanks. Beleaguered by rapidly escalating write-down losses on their guaranties of ...
Source: BestWire Date: March 9, 2009
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MBIA Narrows Fourth-Quarter Net Loss as Annual Loss Widens
Brown said in a statement. The company cited key steps taken in late 2008, including commuting or restructuring its exposure to four multisector collateralized debt obligations, ...
Source: BestWire Date: March 3, 2009
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MBIA Inc. Institutes Say-on-Pay for Top Execs
Bond insurer MBIA Inc.'s board of directors will let shareholders cast votes on the compensation packages granted to senior executives as a part of this year's proxy statement, ...
Source: BestWire Date: February 25, 2009
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Dinallo Questions Frank Idea, Is Unsure of Plan's Future
Sullivan recently granted to Hartford Financial Services Group. Dinallo said Connecticut was responding to a unique set of circumstances based on it relationship with the company. ...
Source: BestWire Date: February 19, 2009
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Financial Guaranty Insurers See Things Go From Bad to Worse
Ambac Financial Group Inc.: During the quarter, we paid $187 million in RMBS (residential mortgage-backed securities) claims. Total RMBS losses for the quarter were $540 million. ...
Source: BestWire Date: December 8, 2008
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Financial Guaranty Insurers See Things Go From Bad to Worse
Ambac Financial Group Inc.: During the quarter, we paid $187 million in RMBS (residential mortgage-backed securities) claims. Total RMBS losses for the quarter were $540 million. ...
Source: BestWire Date: December 8, 2008
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Bond Insurers Planning Plea for Treasury Assistance
Major financial guaranty insurers will meet Oct. 21 with key regulators in New York to formulate proposals under which the industry could look to tap the federal government's $700 ...
Source: BestWire Date: October 20, 2008
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San Francisco Sues Bond Insurers Over Credit Ratings
San Francisco to lower its interest payments. However, bond insurers' own ratings began to plunge beginning in late 2007 due to their losses from subprime mortgage loans -- ...
Source: BestWire Date: October 10, 2008
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Bond Insurers See Tides Turning in Second Quarter
After nearly a year of headlines noting the sector's problems, the U.S. financial guaranty insurance industry finally saw its first casualty of the credit crunch in the second ...
Source: BestWire Date: September 1, 2008
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MBIA Takes on FGIC Obligations in N.Y. Department-Brokered Deal
Financial Guaranty Insurance Co. under a "cut through" transaction brokered by New York Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo. Under terms of the deal, which remains subject to a ...
Source: BestWire Date: August 28, 2008
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