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Friday, October 19, 2007

Cheyne, IKB SIVs Default

by Calculated Risk on 10/19/2007 04:04:00 PM

From Bloomberg: Cheyne, IKB SIVs Default on Commercial Paper as Assets Fall (hat tip FFDIC)

Cheyne Finance Plc and IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG's Rhinebridge Plc, two structured investment vehicles that bought securities backed by home loans, defaulted on more than $7 billion of debt as the value of their holdings fell.
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``The fallout from the credit crisis is far from over,'' said Jim Reid, head of fundamental credit strategy at Deutsche Bank AG in London. ``There are probably more skeletons in the closet. The problem is knowing when and where they are going to emerge.''
Rumors were flying during the last hour of trading of problems at Merrill and Bear. The Merrill rumor was of a special board meeting this weekend with possible additional writedowns - we will see.