Comments on: Are covered bonds really the solution? http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2008/08/are-covered-bonds-really-solution.html a finance news and opinion site Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:53:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: HRE: defusing the German financial time bomb - Credit Writedownshttp://www.creditwritedowns.com/2008/08/are-covered-bonds-really-solution.html#comment-4945 HRE: defusing the German financial time bomb - Credit Writedowns Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:02:16 +0000 http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2008/08/are-covered-bonds-really-the-solution.html#comment-4945 [...] Now Depfa, which caused HRE’s near collapse in October, is no an Irish company at all. It is in Ireland merely as a tax dodge (another example of how the Irish are massively and unwisely leveraged to the financial services industry). In reality, Depfa is a German institution, the Deutsche Pfandbrief  Bank. (As an aside, back in 2008, Hank Paulson talked a lot about Pfandbriefs as a panacea for the U.S. mortgage market.  I have two posts on that from last summer here and here). [...] [...] Now Depfa, which caused HRE’s near collapse in October, is no an Irish company at all. It is in Ireland merely as a tax dodge (another example of how the Irish are massively and unwisely leveraged to the financial services industry). In reality, Depfa is a German institution, the Deutsche Pfandbrief  Bank. (As an aside, back in 2008, Hank Paulson talked a lot about Pfandbriefs as a panacea for the U.S. mortgage market.  I have two posts on that from last summer here and here). [...]

]]> By: edwardnh (Edward Harrison)http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2008/08/are-covered-bonds-really-solution.html#comment-3080 edwardnh (Edward Harrison) Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:34:07 +0000 http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2008/08/are-covered-bonds-really-the-solution.html#comment-3080 Are covered bonds really the solution? http://tinyurl.com/8tuc6r Are covered bonds really the solution? http://tinyurl.com/8tuc6r

]]> By: Edward Harrisonhttp://www.creditwritedowns.com/2008/08/are-covered-bonds-really-solution.html#comment-360 Edward Harrison Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:22:00 +0000 http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2008/08/are-covered-bonds-really-the-solution.html#comment-360 I caught that in my post <a HREF="http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2008/09/european-banking-collapse-including.html" REL="nofollow">European banking collapse including nationalisation of three banks</a>. It is not looking good for Europe any moe than it did for the US a year ago. I caught that in my post European banking collapse including nationalisation of three banks. It is not looking good for Europe any moe than it did for the US a year ago.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.creditwritedowns.com/2008/08/are-covered-bonds-really-solution.html#comment-356 Anonymous Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:19:00 +0000 http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2008/08/are-covered-bonds-really-the-solution.html#comment-356 The largest German issuer of Covered bonds (HRE) just collapsed and needed a <a HREF="www.berninger.de" REL="nofollow">bail out</a> by German government.<br/><br/>more at http://www.berninger.de The largest German issuer of Covered bonds (HRE) just collapsed and needed a bail out by German government.

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