Asset-backed securities

Bernanke, Dudley justify Talf

Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, and William Dudley, the president of the New York Fed, moved to temper fears among lawmakers that the central bank's Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (Talf) puts taxpayers' money at risk.

Fukui on the current state of the Japanese economy

In a speech given on 1 October, Toshihiko Fukui of the Bank of Japan said that although it is unprecedented for the central bank to purchase asset-backed securities in that it directly accepts the credit risk pertaining to private-sector debt, the bank…

Central banks could own big chunk of US Tsys-UBSW

RESEARCH - Global central banks could own the entire supply of marketable U.S. debt by the end of 2006 as growing foreign exchange reserves force them to buy more ultra-safe U.S. government debt, according to a survey of central banks conducted by UBS…

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