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Obligations Defined

Requirements arising from a person's situation or circumstances (e.g., relationships, knowledge, position) that specify what must or must not be done for some moral, legal, religious, or institutional reasons. For example, students have an obligation see their advisor on or before Registration Day. People have a moral obligation to keep their promises. Notice that usually statements of obligations specify what acts are required or forbidden without reference to the consequences of performing the act (except in so far as these consequences are a part of the characterization of the act itself - for example, killing is an act that results in death). However, occasionally you will see such statements as "engineers have an obligation in their work to ensure the public safety," which mean that engineers are morally required to ensure the public safety but which do not specify what acts they should or should not perform in order to ensure safety. A legal obligation is a legal requirement that specifies what types of actions are permitted, forbidden, or required on legal grounds. Often legal obligations are monetary debts. When we speak of an obligation without specifying its nature we will mean a moral obligation.

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  • Collateralised Debt Obligations: a description of what they are, how they are used, and how they got banks around capital adequacy regulations | an essay by Domenico Picone: This chapter explores the market of CDOs and synthetic CDOs and their use in bank balance sheet management. We first review different types of CDOs used in capital markets and their economic rationals and then discuss the growth in synthetic CDOs under structural and balance sheet management perspectives. Following this we analyse the CDO equity piece and how it can be used in portfolio management, and then, we offer a structuring example: using with the Moody?s Binomial Expansion and Double Binomial Expansion techniques we arrive at the best debt structure for a synthetic CDO. We conclude with a short introduction on the S&P CDO evaluator. Explains how banks were able to become so highly levered. While AIG is not mentioned, this will make clear why AIG's failure would have collapsed the western financial system. You can see why the banks stopped lending to each other. They knew that most other banks were insolvent due to losses from over-leverage.

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