How Bank Regulation Helped Destroy AIG - 0 views
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shared by Gary Edwards on 02 Mar 09
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Gary Edwards on 02 Mar 09Great comment! I've never heard it phrased this way before, but i think it hits the mark: the mark-to-market" risk that CDS were designed to take away, were simply moved from the banks/traders books to that of AIG.
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The problem AIG an the other insurers face is that they got the analysis so wrong that many of those CDS payments are coming due now and the mark to market that they took away from the traders, is now on their book! Result = AIG insolvent.
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in many ways the last round of regulatory reform helped cause the disaster in AIG. How could AIG's destruction have been caused by banking regulation? Most people wil probably be surprised by the very idea. After all, they've been told that what really happened to AIG involved unregulated credit default swaps, insurance contracts on bonds that AIG sold across the world. They suspect AIG might have been caused by too little regulation. In fact, much of AIG's problem was caused by credit default swaps and regulation. After Hank Greenberg was ousted from AIG, the company began to get heavily involved in the credit default swap market. That market was growing in large part because of banking regulation.