AIG’s CDS business: how AIG got involved in the crisis and why the biggest world insurance company suddenly collapsed. Part III is about credit default swaps: definition‚ construction‚ and problems. Part IV is concerned on the regulation reform after AIG’s failure. Wall Street Crisis Speaking of the Wall Street crisis‚ people all know it proceed from subprime crisis. The relatively low interest rate prompts banks to issue large amount of housing loans. To transfer default risk embedded in those loans
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Abstract AIG traces its root to 1919‚ when American Cornelius Vander Starr established a general insurance agency‚ American Asiatic Underwriters‚ in Shanghai‚ China. Since then‚ an enterprising spirit‚ ingenuity‚ and tenacity have built the company into one of the world’s leading insurers. Today‚ AIG is focused on what it has been known for since the beginning: the willingness and ability to provide insurance coverage to meet the diverse needs of its clients. American International Group‚ Inc. (AIG) is
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Risks Faced by Banks and Regulatory Countermeasures Abstract The essay will analysis and discuss risk and regulation method for banks. There are different types of risks in bank operation; for instance‚ interest rate risk‚ credit risk‚ liquidity risk and operation risk. This essay will focus on the liquidity risk problem in bank and regulation countermeasure of liquidity risk. Regulators improved level of risk management after global financial crisis; therefore‚ the Basel Banking Supervision
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Who is AIG? American International Group‚ Inc. (AIG) is a leading provider of insurance and retirement solutions. Headquartered in New York City‚ AIG has principal offices for its international operations located in London‚ Hong Kong and La Defénse. AIG companies serve commercial‚ institutional and individual customers in more than 130 countries and employs 63‚000. Through its multiple company segments‚ AIG also provides services in the life insurance and retirement services industries. AIG is divided
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Running head: AIG BAILOUT AIG Bailout Clari McGougan‚ Shawna Wilson‚ Keasha Kessler‚ Lashonda Edwards‚ Dale Ballard‚ and Michael Baltzelle University of Phoenix AIG Bailout The main ethics categories and theories involved in the American International Group (AIG) bailout are duty based ethics which has its pros and cons‚ and the theory is deontological which puts the rightness of an action before good. The pros of duty based ethics are equal rights are important to every person
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THE INTERNAL CONTROLS AND FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES THAT LED TO THE BAILOUT OF OUR NATION’S LARGEST INSURANCE COMPANY By: Monte Schwartz PREFACE Anyone who watches TV has most likely seen the American International Group (hereinafter AIG) commercial with the little boy who walks into his parent’s room while they are sleeping. When his mother asks if he had a nightmare‚ he says “no” and that he’s worried about his parent’s financial future. After a twenty-second
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Generale‚ Deutsche Bank AG and UBS AG. That’s about half the $66.7 billion that those companies‚ the five biggest beneficiaries of loans and capital infusions for AIG‚ said they spent on pay and benefits last year for employees‚ some of whom created or traded toxic subprime assets that proved deadly for lenders. The bonuses paid by AIG and the banks were allowed under a congressional exemption from compensation limits on companies getting government rescue funds. The Treasury staff requested the
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Pre-September 2008: The AIG Crisis Over the years‚ AIG built upon its premier global franchises in life and general insurance by expanding into a range of financial services businesses. One of these‚ created in 1987‚ was AIG Financial Products Corp. (AIGFP)‚ a company that engaged as principal in a wide variety of financial transactions for a global client base. In 1998‚ AIGFP began to sell credit default swaps to other financial institutions to protect against the default of certain securities
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American International Group and the Bonus Fiasco On September 16‚ 2008 AIG suffered a liquidity crisis following the downgrade of its credit rating. In response‚ the federal government allotted AIG 85 billion in a bailout to keep the firm afloat in exchange for an equity stake in the company. In a very controversial move‚ AIG paid out more than 500 million in salaries and bonuses to senior employees after accepting the federal assistance money. This outraged the public‚ and in turn politicians
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Introduction AIG‚ American International Group Inc.‚ is one of the top multinational insurance corporations. AIG‚ with asset of 556 billion‚ provides insurance service for more than 150 different countries and it has over 630‚ 000 employees over the world. Even though AIG is such a giant corporation‚ it has encountered financial problems in the early 2000s. Under financial pressure and a lack of internal control‚ AIG have committed frauds resulting in several scandals. One of the accounting scandals
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