15 years: Debt capital markets
In the first video of this series, Sukhy emphasises the importance of regulating insurance companies with reference to the infamous collapse of AIG during the financial crisis. Sukhy discusses the international role of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) in insurance regulation post-financial crisis.
In the first video of this series, Sukhy emphasises the importance of regulating insurance companies with reference to the infamous collapse of AIG during the financial crisis. Sukhy discusses the international role of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) in insurance regulation post-financial crisis.
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The 2008 Global Financial Crisis was a watershed moment in the financial sector that exposed weaknesses in the banking system and insurance industry, it demonstrated the interconnectedness between banks and insurers and the danger of systemic issues across the two sectors, ultimately proving the need for insurance regulation.
Key learning objectives:
Understand how American Insurance Group or AIG collapsed
Define Collateralised Debt Obligations
Define Credit Default Swaps
Understand why Aegon needed a bailout
Describe the Financial Stability Board and its key objectives
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These are the structured finance vehicles whose collateral is traditionally made up of a number of individual loans, such as:
In the run-up to the global financial crisis, banks released several hundred billion dollars of CDOs.
A form of credit insurance which transfers the default risk of a financial instrument from the buyer to the seller.
AIG became a major seller of credit protection in the value of more than $500bn. Nearly $60bn of the CDOs on which AIG had sold credit protection contained mortgage-backed securities, many of which referenced subprime mortgages, which significantly declined in value as the US housing market turned in 2007. The collapse in CDO values and CDO rating downgrades required AIG to post additional cash collateral with its CDS counterparties. This collateral requirement created a liquidity crunch, which was compounded by AIG’s inability to access capital markets. The results of these events eventually led to AIG’s bankruptcy.
Aegon is one of the largest providers of life insurance, pensions and asset management operating across the world. In the US they are known as Transamerica.
The Financial Stability Board or FSB established in April 2009 in response to the Global Financial Crisis is one of the key international bodies that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system by coordinating national financial authorities and international standard-setting bodies.
The FSBs objectives can be broken down into the following areas:
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