One of the most exciting developments for Europe's public private partnership (PPP)
financing of infrastructure in 2004 was remarkable for the fact it had no direct public-sector …

The innovative Essential Public Infrastructure Capital II (EPIC II) securitization will allow Depfa
Bank, the originator and servicer for the transaction, to transfer the credit risk of a pool of …

… In July 2004, for instance, analyst Lapo Guadagnuolo sent an e-mail to Morgan Stanley’s
point man on the Cheyne deal, Gregg Drennan, and told him that the best he could do for the “…

The term “hybrid” refers to CDO assets being comprised of both ABS credit default swaps (CDS)
and asset-backed securities (ABS) cash bonds. This article reviews the advantages of …

… S&P was wary: “Going from 35% to 25% seems quite a jump, especially if we are rating
AAA,” said Lapo Guadagnuolo, one of the agency’s quantitative analysts, on May 23, 2006. But …

Despite fears that regulators around the world would act to curtail securitisation severely in
the aftermath of the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat, the securitisation industry …

At the beginning of July 2006, Paris-based Natexis Banques Populaires launched its second
CLO of LBOs, Vallauris II. This article describes some of the detail of the Vallauris II deal, …

This paper reports the results of a ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey of the ground-floor
of Academia Gallery (Florence, Italy) where the Michelangelo’s David is exhibited to the …