What’s fair value in foul markets?
How will securitization shape up?
ONE YEAR AGO, as bankers, finance ministers, central bankers and their retinues descended on Washington for the annual IMF/World Bank meetings, Rick Waugh, chief executive of Scotiabank, didn’t know what was about to hit him.
For many bank chief executives, the meetings of the Institute of International Finance, the private sector banking industry association, are now almost as important as the official meetings themselves. And as they assembled last year, many IIF board members, among their number the chief executives of many of the largest banks in the world, must have sensed that their careers were about to run into a brick wall of write-downs, distressed asset sales and emergency capital-raising. Quite a few of their peers won’t be back this year.
But a different kind of surprise was being cooked up...
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