nakedempire


The American Empire in a Changing World



Pages

Thursday, July 19, 2012

''Japan Bank Fined by SEC for CDO Investor Fraud that Bear Stearns Did Also''

From Teri Buhl

''A Japan bank, Mizuho Securities, was hit with an enforcement action and fine from the SEC today for not telling the mortgage security raters the truth about the quality of the loans they were rating on a $1.6 billion CDO. The securities regulator says Mizuho made $10 million in fees selling a 2007 CDO called Delphinus to investors. The SEC claims the Japanese bank used an industry method know as packing the CDO with ‘dummy assets’ to get the security rated by S&P in a short amount of time.''

read more 

No comments:

Post a Comment