Structured Finance

                                               

Date:
Tuesday
March 29, 2011

Time:
3:00 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time

Key Contacts:
Irene Ho-Moore
Managing Director,
Criteria Officer
EMEA Structured Finance & Global Covered Bonds,
44-20-7176-3532

Karen Naylor
Managing Director, Global Analytical Manager for Covered Bonds,
Structured Finance
44-20-7176-3533

Simon Collingridge, Managing Director,
Head of Outreach Structured Finance EMEA,
44-20-7176-3841

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Covered Bonds Counterparty Criteria Teleconference


Standard & Poor's Ratings Services is requesting comments on its proposed changes to its covered bond criteria for assessing counterparty and supporting party risk (collectively
"counterparty risk"). Counterparty risk is one of the key factors we consider when we analyze and assign ratings to covered bonds.
 
Please join Karen Naylor, Global Analytical Manager for Covered Bonds and Irene Ho-Moore, Criteria Officer EMEA Structured Finance and Global Covered Bonds for a teleconference and Q&A on Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 at 3:00PM GMT, 4:00PM CET, 10:00AM EST as they discuss the proposed changes to the criteria.
 
Please click on the following link to download a complimentary copy of the request for comment:
 

 

Related Research

 

Counterparty and Supporting Obligations Update, Jan. 13, 2011


Counterparty And Supporting Obligations Methodology And Assumptions, Dec 6, 2010

 

Revised Methodology And Assumptions For Assessing Asset-Liability Mismatch Risk in Covered Bonds, Dec. 16, 2009


 

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