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Top Firm Accused Of Selling ‘Garbage’ Deal To Investors

Some staff accused of ‘try(ing) to get away with anything’ they could, including selling ‘utter complete garbage’.

Credit Suisse bundled hundreds of mortgages into a single set of securities sold to investors in 2007 even after it had found flaws with the loans and asked the lenders to repurchase the debt, bond insurer MBIA Inc said in a court filing . . .

http://hereisthecity.com/2013/02/04/c-suisse-accused-of-putting-garbage-mortgages-in-bonds/



Regulators Missed Peregrine warning signs

Regulators in charge of monitoring the bankrupt futures brokerage Peregrine Financial Group missed warning signs as far back as 1994, according to an independent report released on the same day Peregrine’s founder was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

http://hereisthecity.com/2013/02/04/regulators-missed-peregrine-warning-signs-as-early-as-1994-repor/



UBS Posts Loss On Libor Fine, Reorganization Costs

UBS posted a fourth-quarter loss after booking a fine for trying to rig global interest rates and costs tied to job cuts.

Bloomberg reports that the net loss amounted to $2.08bn, compared with a profit of $354.8m a year earlier, UBS said in a statement Tuesday . .

http://hereisthecity.com/2013/02/05/ubs-posts-loss-on-libor-fine-reorganization-costs/



More news on UBS bonuses

UBS will award bonuses to 6,500 senior bankers in the form of bonds that can be wiped out if the company doesn’t meet capital standards, according to the Financial Times. . .

http://hereisthecity.com/2013/02/05/ubs-bankers-said-to-receive-bonuses-in-bonds-that-can-be-wiped-o/



UBS Bonuses 2012

UBS provided $2.74bn in bonuses in 2012 – the lowest level since the beginning of the financial crisis. . .

 

http://hereisthecity.com/2013/02/05/ubs-compensation-at-lowest-level-since-beginning-of-financial-cr/