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- Reining In SPEs
- From the executive summary: ‘The recent corporate frauds have forced the Securities and Exchange Commission to enforce new and improved rules on Special Purpose Entities SPEs. SPEs are not just the playthings of unscrupulous executives at high-flying companies; they are widely used by companies across a variety of industries for...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- Ticking Financial Bombs at Caterpillar
- Jim Owens, Chairman and Chief Executive of Caterpillar, told analysts on the company's third-quarter 2008 earnings call he believes demand in emerging markets, especially for energy and mining equipment, should offset weaker construction spending in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. What he and other executives failed to mention on the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
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- Does Alumax bar "bankruptcy-proofing" and special voting rights? - Tax Court decision
- Whenever a corporation seeks to borrow funds with respect to a specific asset or business, the lender commonly requests that the asset or business be placed in a "bankruptcy-remote" subsidiary, which is often referred to as a "special-purpose entity" or an SPE. The lender will also frequently request various special...
- Research articles 1998-03-01
- RUSSIA: MOODY'S ASSIGNS BA2 TO AK BARS LUXEMBOURG S.A. NOTES; STABLE OUTLOOK.
- Moody's Investors Service has assigned a rating of Ba2 with stable outlook to the Loan Participation Notes to be issued on a limited recourse basis by AK BARS Luxembourg S.A. -- a Luxembourg-based special purpose entity -- for the sole purpose of fi Moody's Investors...
- Research articles 2008-06-02
- Roundup Accounting - FASB Issues Exposure Draft on QSPEs
- FASB Issues Exposure Draft on QSPEs. FASB issued an exposure draft of a proposed Statement, Qualifying Special-Purpose Entities and Isolation of Transferred Assets.an amendment of FASB Statement No. 140. The exposure draft changes the requirements that an entity must meet to...
- White papers 2003-06-23
- Consumer Portfolio Services Inc. Announces Two Securitizations
- IRVINE, Calif. -- Consumer Portfolio Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPSS) announced that it has closed two term securitization transactions. On June 24, 2004, a wholly owned special purpose entity issued $76.3 million of Notes backed by automotive receivables originated by The Finance Company ("TFC") and by SeaWest Financial Corporation ("SeaWest"). On...
- Research articles 2004-06-25
- Issues in accounting
- The FASB to special-purpose entities: "come out, come out, wherever you are!" Put simply, the goal of FIN 46R is to make it harder for companies to hide problems or other questionable activities. Its provisions are important to bankers who lend funds to companies with variable-interest entities (the new version...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Boston Edison Company Announces Securitization of Stranded Costs
- BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--July 22, 1999-- Boston Edison Company (BSE-NYSE) today Massachusetts RRB Special Purpose Trust BEC-1, a special purpose entity created by MassDevelopment and Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority to enable Boston Edison Company to securitize a portion of its approved stranded cost recovery, agreed to sell $725 million...
- Research articles 1999-07-22
- 2d French Firm Plans Lease Deal.(Thales)(Brief Article)
- French defense firm Thales plans to raise about 300 million euros ($261 million) via a sale-leaseback transaction that will be financed through the commercial MBS market. Thales plans to sell a portfolio of office buildings to a special-purpose entity and lease them back. The...
- Research articles 2002-03-01
- Japan Hotel Firm Maps CMBS Deal.(commercial mortgage backed securities)(Brief Article)
- Japanese hotel operator Fujita Kanko plans to cut its debt burden through a sale-leaseback transaction that will be financed via the commercial MBS market. The Tokyo firm will sell the posh Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, 11 other hotels, a banquet hall and...
- Research articles 2002-03-08
- Concerns over Accounting Issues Propel Firms to Issue Earnings Restatements.
- By David Ivanovich, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 14--WASHINGTON--Stop me if you've heard this one. A Houston company may have to restate its earnings because of an accounting issue related to an off-balance sheet, special purpose entity. The...
- Research articles 2002-02-14
- Fitch Cuts CMBS Ratings in Wake of General Growth Filing
- Research Recap submits: The shoes are starting to drop in the aftermath of the bankruptcy filing of retail shopping mall REIT General Growth Properties GGP. Fitch Ratings has revised its Rating Outlook to Negative from Stable on 96 U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) classes across 20 transactions....
- External links 2009-04-22
- Defeasance: Now A Viable Option In New York State
- The concept of defeasance of a mortgage arises from the needs of today's mortgage loan securitization industry, where lenders originate mortgage loans to transfer them to a special-purpose entity that issues bonds backed by the cash flow of the mortgages. To maximize the total selling price of the bonds, the...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- A.M. Best States Position on Sidecars
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- The tightening of reinsurance capacity in the property/casualty market has made the use of "sidecars" an attractive alternative to traditional retrocession. A sidecar is a limited-life special purpose entity that generally provides property catastrophe quota-share reinsurance exclusively to its sponsor. Of late, A.M. Best Co. has seen...
- Research articles 2006-06-16
- United PanAm Financial Corp. Announces $200 Million Auto Finance Warehouse Facility
- NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- United PanAm Financial Corp., a California corporation (the "Company" or "UPFC") (Nasdaq:UPFC), announced today that it closed a $200 million auto finance warehouse facility (the "Facility") structured by Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. ("DBSI") and funded via a commercial paper issuing special purpose entity administered by Deutsche...
- Research articles 2004-09-24
- Life Partners Holdings, Inc. Announces New Institutional Relationship
- WACO, Texas -- Life Partners Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ GM: LPHI), announced today that its primary operating subsidiary, Life Partners, Inc., has signed an agreement to originate life settlements for a special purpose entity that has funding committed by WestLB AG, a major international financial institution. WestLB AG is not affiliated...
- Research articles 2007-09-04
- Finacity and NORD/LB Announce an Increase to $100 Million of a Receivable Securitization for Alliance One International, Inc.
- Finacity Corporation ("Finacity") announced today that together with Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale ("NORD/LB") it has facilitated an amendment to a trade receivable securitization facility for Alliance One International, Inc. (NYSE: AOI). The amendment increases the facility to $100 million, improves pricing and extends the maturity 3.5 years to March 2013....
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Cleco Corporation Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions. Our first question comes from Robert Chewning - Davenport & Company. Robert Chewning - Davenport & Company If I look at the quarter, even taking out the I think $0.03 of reversal on interest expense, it looked to be a lot lower...
- Earnings calls 2008-02-28
- SEC says AIG public statements misleading
- AIG said Monday that the Securities and Exchange Commission has accused it of engaging in a pattern of "misleading" public statements about a controversial accounting product the insurer formerly sold to a handful of corporate clients. The dispute signals that AIG and regulators are at odds about how to...
- Research articles 2004-10-05
- Advaxis, Inc. Completes an Additional US$1.1 Million Private Placement Financing
- PRINCETON, N.J. -- Advaxis, Inc. (Symbol: GXPT.PK), a Colorado corporation ("Company"), today announced that it had completed its private placement sale of 44 Units at $25,000 per Unit to Harvest Advaxis, LLC totaling $1,100,000. Each Unit consists of 87,108 shares of the Company's common stock and 87,108 warrants of which...
- Research articles 2005-01-12
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