INDEX
ABN AMRO Bank
Accounting firms
consulting services of
insulation from private lawsuits
manipulation of financial statements and
See also individual firms
Accounting issues
manipulation of financial reports
“materiality”
shifting from rules to standards and
stock options
See also Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB); Off-balance sheet transactions
Adelphia Communications
Aggressive employees, inability of managers to control
financial crises of 2008-2009 and
See also names of individuals
Ahrens, Kent
AIG (American International Group)
AIG Financial Products
Air Products and Chemicals
Allfirst Financial
Alliance Capital
North American Government Income Fund
Alprin, Judge Walter J.
Amazon.com
AMBAC Inc.
American Banker
American Business Conference
American Electric Power
American Express
American International Group (AIG)
American Stock Exchange
Americus Trust
Annunziata, Robert
AOL Time Warner
Arbitrage
regulatory
Salomon Brothers, Arbitrage Group
See also Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM)
ARCO
Argentina
Arkansas Teacher Retirement System
Armstrong, Michael
Arnold, John
Arrow Financial Services
Arthur Andersen
consulting business
Enron and
Global Crossing and
Sunbeam and
Waste Management and
WorldCom and
Arthur Young & Co.
Artzt, Edwin
Askin, David
Askin Capital Management
AT&T
Audit committees
Avon Products
Back office
Bair, Sheila
Baird, Bruce
Baker, Ron
Banamex
Banco Serfin
Bank for International Settlements
Bank of America
Bank of New York
BankAmerica
Bankers Trust
1987 earnings
bonuses at
civil lawsuits against
control systems
corporate culture at
Deutsche Bank’s purchase of
equity derivatives and
International Swap Dealers Association and
Krieger and
long-term stock-index options trading
Newman as head of
private placements and
risk-measurement systems at
SEC and
swaps and
Wheat at
Bankers Trust, Procter & Gamble v.
Bankruptcy process, credit default swaps and
Banks and banking
capital reserve requirements
See also Commercial banking; Credit derivatives; Investment banks; names of individual banks
Bansal, Sanjeev
Barclays Bank
Barings Bank
Barron’s
Basel Committee
Basel II proposal
Basham, Michael E.
Bass, Carl
Bauman, Joseph
Baxter, Cliff
Bear Stearns
Becker, Brandon
Beder, Tanya, Styblo
Behavioral finance
Belden, Timothy N.
Belgium
Bell Atlantic
Bentsen, Lloyd
Berg, Jonathan
Bernhard, Alison
Betting against stocks
Black, Fischer
Black-Scholes model
Blackbird Holdings
Blodget, Henry
Boards of directors
See also individual companies
Bobbitt, Max
Boesky, Ivan
Bonds
Collateralized Bond Obligations (CBOs)
credit ratings of
junk bonds
STRIPS
sub-investment-grade bonds
yield curve
See also Mortgage bonds; Structured notes; Treasury-bond auctions
Bonneville Pacific
Bonuses
at Bankers Trust
at CS First Boston
at Enron
excessive risk-taking and
at First Boston
at Kidder Peabody
for mutual fund managers
at Salomon Brothers
of securities analysts
Borget, Louis J.
Born, Brooksley
Bowsher, Charles
Boxer, Barbara
Brady, Nicholas
Brady bonds
Brazil
Breeden, Richard C.
Brickell, Mark C.
as lobbyist for ISDA
OFHEO and
Britain, regulation of derivatives in
British Telecommunications
Brittain, Alfred
Bronner, David
Bruntjen, Worth
BT Securities Corporation
Buffett, Warren
Bullets
Buntrock, Dean
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Bush, Marvin
Bush, Neil
Bushley, Scott
Business Week
C. E. Unterberg, Towbin
C. W. Post
Calame, Byron E.
California energy markets
California Micro Devices
California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS)
Call options
Campbell, Kirsten
Campsie Limited
Cardozo, Justice Benjamin
Carlton Communications
Carr, Fred
Carry trade
Casey, Thomas J.
Casey, William
Cassidy, John
Causey, Richard A.
Cavuto, Neil
Caxton Group
Cayne, James
CBC Holdings
Cendant
Central Bank of Denver v. First Interstate Bank of Denver
Certificates of deposit (CDs)
Cerullo, Edward
CFO Magazine
Chan, Ronnie C.
Channel stuffing
Chanos, James S.
Char, Richard
Charismatic CEOs
Charles Schwab
Chase Manhattan
Chemical Bank
Chenault, Kenneth
Cheney, Dick
Chewco Investments L.P.
Chicago School economists
Chow, Andrew
Christie, William
Chrysler Corporation
Chrystal, John
Ciena
Cisco Systems
Citibank
Citicorp
Citigroup
Citron, Robert
Civil lawsuits, securities-related
obstacles to
Clark, Jim
Clemens, Will
Clinton, Bill, and Clinton administration
bailout of Mexican government
Levitt and
Clinton, Hillary
CNBC
Coase, Ronald
Coleman camping gear
Collateralized Bond Obligations (CBOs)
Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs)
Synthetic
Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs)
interest-only bonds (IOs)
inverse IOs
; principal-only (POs)
Columbia Savings & Loan
Comey, James B.
Commercial banking
Glass-Steagall Act and
investment banking subsidiaries
Commercial Paper index (CP)
Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Commodity Futures Modernization Act
Common Fund
Common stock
Community Assets Management Inc.
Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild Banque, La
Compensation, executive
limitations on corporate tax deduction for salaries
See also Bonuses; Stock options
Complexity of financial instruments
credit derivatives
financial crises of 2008-2009 and
mortgage bonds
preferred stock, novel types of
structured notes
swaps
Comptroller of the Currency
Confession, The (Igushi)
Conflict-of-interest issues
for accounting firms
for investment banks
for securities analysts
See also Related Party transactions
Congress, U.S.
accounting reforms
Enron hearings
reaction to financial scandals
regulation of derivatives and
Consolidated Press Holdings
Continental Vending
“Contract with America,” Republican
Convertible bonds
Cook, Lodwrick M.
Cooper, Cynthia
Cooperman, Leon
Corporate raiders
Corrigan, E. Gerald
Covington & Burling
Cox, Charles
Crazy Eddie
Credit default swaps
explanation of plain-vanilla
risk of, difficulty in understanding
transfer of credit risk and
Credit derivatives
Collateralized Debt Obligations
Greenspan and
transfer of credit risk and
See also Credit default swaps
Credit-rating agencies
analysts at
Collateralized Bond Obligations (CBOs) and
Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) and
derivative subsidiaries of investment banks and
East Asian financial problems and
Enron and
financial meltdown and
General Electric and
Orange County, California bonds and
preferred stock instruments, assessment
profitability of
recommendations
risk model used by
WorldCom and
Credit ratings
importance of
investment-grade dividing line
structured finance and
triggers
Credit risk
credit derivatives and transfer of
Credit Suisse
interest in CS First Boston
medium-term note facility
Credit Suisse Financial Products (CSFP)
CrossWorlds Software
Crystal, Graef
CS First Boston
IPOs and
structured finance and
structured notes and
Wheat at
CUC International
Culp, Christopher
Currency band on Mexican peso
Currency options
basic explanation of
exchanges, trading on
exercise or strike price
expiration date
Krieger and
over-the-counter markets
Currency swaps
Czech Republic
D. E. Shaw
Daily Telegraph (London)
Daiwa Bank
D’Amato, Alfonse
Das, Satyajit
Davies, Howard
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Day trading
Dealer banks
Dean Witter
DECS
Deitz, Richard
Delaware Management Co.
Dell Computer
Deregulation
financial crises of 2008-2009 and
See also Regulation and regulators
Derivatives
congressional consideration of regulation of
equity
futures
GAO study of
international financial crises and
losses following raising of interest rates in 1994
manipulation of financial reports
media’s use of the word
recommendations
See also Credit derivatives; Options; Structured finance; Structured notes
Derivatives Policy Group
Derivatives Strategy
Deutsche Bank
Devon Energy
Dietert, Jeff
“Directors: Control Your Derivatives”
Dirks, Raymond L.
Disclosure(s)
credit default swaps and
hedge funds and
“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Results and Operations” section of financial reports
“materiality” and
Regulation FD
Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) and
of underwriting fees
Dividends, stock
Dobbs, Lou
Domenici, Pete
Dominion Resources
Donaldson, William
Donnkenny
Dorgan, Byron L.
Dornbusch, Rudi
Dorsch, Shawn
Dot.com problems
Douglas, Justice William O.
Downward-sloping demand for stock, theory of
Drexel Burnham Lambert
Due-diligence investigations
Duisenberg, Wim
Duke Energy
Duncan, David
Dunlap, Al
Dunne, Helen
DuPont Co.
Dynergy
E*Trade
Earnings reports. See Financial statements and earnings reports
East Asia. See specific countries
EBay.com
Ebbers, Bernard J.
EBITDA
Economist, The
Efficient-market theory
exploiting of market inefficiencies
El Paso Corporation
Elders, Dr. Joycelyn
Emerging markets
Employees, aggressive. See Aggressive employees
Energy derivatives
See also Enron
ENRB Ltd.
Enron
Arthur Andersen and
audit committee
board of directors
bonuses at
California energy crisis and
congressional hearings
credit-rating agencies and
dark fiber trading
as derivatives-trading firm
EnronOnline Internet platform
expansion of trading to new products
financial statements
forward curves, misstating profits by mismarking
forward purchases of its own shares
Global Crossing deals with
hiding profits
legality of complex deals at
LJM and LJM2 (off-balance sheet partnerships)
make-whole derivative deals
managing of earnings
MIPS and
off-balance sheet partnerships
profits from energy derivatives-trading operations
prudency reserves
Qwest swap
Related Party transactions and
risk-management manual
SEC and
Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) and
stock options
Swap Sub
tax-avoidance trades at
t
raders, strategies of
venture-capital subsidiaries
Enron Capital LLC
Enron Energy Services
Enron Europe
Enron Oil
EnronOnline
Equitable Resources
Equity derivatives
Equity Funding
Equity Group Holdings
Erickson, Joseph
Ernst & Young
Evans, Donald
Exchange Stabilization Fund
Factoring
Fair-disclosure rule (Reg FD)
Faircloth, Lauch
Fama, Eugene
Fannie Mae
Fastow, Andrew
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal Home Loan Bank
Federal Paper Board
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review
Federal Reserve Board
raising of interest rates in 1994
Feikens, Judge John
Feinstein, Dianne
FELINE PRIDES
Feuerstein, Donald
Fidelity Investments
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) and
Financial crisis
of 2007-2008
of 2008-2009
Financial statements and earnings reports
of Enron
of Global Crossing
IRS-reported earnings
manipulation of
recommendations
restatements
See also Off-balance sheet transactions
Financial technology
increasing sophistication of
See also Risk models
First Alert
First Boston
See also CS First Boston
First Call Corporation
First Data Corp.
First Executive Corp.
First Interstate Bank of Denver, Central Bank of Denver v.
First Union
Fisher, Peter
Fitch Investors Service
Fleet Financial Group
Fleischer, David
FNN
Fonkenell, Henri André
Forbes, Walter
Ford Motor Co.
Fortune
Forward curves
Forward reconstitution
Franklin Advisors
Freddie Mac
Friedenrich, John
Friedman, Thomas
Friendly, Judge Henry
Froelich, Robert
Frost, David
Fuld, Richard
Futures
G-30
Gadzoox Networks
Garnett, Katrina
Gasparino, Charles
Gatekeeper recommendations
General Accounting Office (GAO)
General Electric
credit derivatives and
earnings reports
GE Capital
Kidder Peabody and
structured notes and
General Motors
General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC)
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
Germany
Gibson Greetings
Ginnie Mae
Glass-Steagall Act
Glaxo Holdings
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