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Strategic
Planning
Tavakoli Structured Finance provides
strategic planning services in
structured financial products including credit
derivatives, securitization, traditional derivatives,
securitized transactions,
asset backed securities, synthetic collateralized debt
obligations, and cash backed collateralized debt obligations.
Programs address market
growth, growing investor sectors, competitive development,
new product development brainstorming, and industry best
practices.
Structured
Finance, Collateralized
Debt Obligations (CDOs), Derivatives
- Increase Market Share
- Increasing Deal Flow
- Synthetic
and cash CDOs: balance sheet, multi-sector asset
backed
CDOs,
arbitrage
CDOs,
and single tranche CDOs
- Credit derivatives and total
return swaps: special securitization issues
- Collateralized fund obligations
(CFOs)
- Using (and abusing) special
purpose entities (SPEs): venues, tax, accounting, documentation,
disguised loans, money siphons, fraud, and other abuses
- Issuance and deal management
- FIN 46 and IAS 39: accounting
arbitrage implications
- Designing fair value structures
- Value gaming to the detriment
of investors, managers, and non-structuring desks
- Risks to the trading books
and balance sheet
- Downgrades and distressed CDOs
- Regulatory, audit, documentation,
and legal issues – Basel 2 and Sarbanes-Oxley
- Leveraged Finance
- Convergence of structured finance
and corporate finance
Credit
Derivatives
- Expanding trading counterparties and investors
- Expanding and Streamlining Trading
- Credit default swaps, total return swaps, and credit-linked
notes
- Pricing and market data
- Market maker overview
- Relative value
- Investor driven structures
- Hedging credit risk
- Balance sheet optimization
- Language issues in various structures
- Regulatory, total capital, legal, documentation, and
market issues
- U.S. versus Europe – cross border issues
- Asian issues
- Contingent claims
- Securitization, structured finance, and credit derivatives
- Insurance versus credit derivatives
- Total return swaps, financing and toxic convertibles
- Hedge funds and alternative investors
- Future developments in language issues
- Portfolio swaps and synthetic collateralized debt obligations
- Future developments
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