Wednesday, May 16, 2007

The buck stops....

People keep wondering where the risk lies with the packaging and passing of credit risk. this article in the FT points to Credit Derivative Product Companies (CDPC) as being anxious to get hold of the risk.

This nascent industry is still very small, with only four groups in operation. But this year could see a raft of new CDPCs hit the market, all hoping to take a slice of this credit derivatives business and make more of it than banks can.

More than a dozen hopeful firms are in the works, backed by a mixture of private equity, hedge fund and investment bank sponsors.

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