FCIC – Testimony 2010 0113 – Mark Zandi (Moody’s) – Written Testimony – Before the FCIC on The Causes and Current State of the Financial Crisis – 17p 2010 0114 – FDIC FCIC – Sheila Bair, FDIC – 54p   2010 0407 – FRB FCIC – Alan Greenspan, Former Chair of the Federal Reserve and Private…

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FCIC – Snippets 2008 0916 (9pm) – FCIC – KKR – Email from Tagar Olson Regarding AIG – 5p If you assume that the economic losses against the CDS book (estimated by Blackrock at  $11-$18bn) and other under-reserved amounts/ questionable assets (the great unknown) are less than the value of their core insurance and other…

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Geithner – FCIC Finding Aid 115 results p198 – 57,332 10-01-11 Bloomberg – Geithner rejects Goldman Sachs Assertion It Didn’t Need U.S. Help_1.pdf p214 – Directory of I:\FCIC_draft\Comm. Work Space\R&I Plans\Shadow Banking\Hearing 4\Hearing Background Materials\IV. Secretary Timothy Geithner 1. Secretary Geithner Biography 2. Transcripts or “Memoranda for the Record” (MFR) 3. Significant Speeches and Testimony…

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AIG – PWC – PricewaterhouseCoopers 2007 02 – PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit Committee Notes – 3p 2007 0808 PWC Memo to AIGFP 2007 2Q Review Files.pdf – 2p 2007 1011 – PWC Notes of a Meeting at AIGFP – 3p 2007 1106 – AIG – Audit Committee – 14p 2007 1022 – PWC – Notes of a telephone conversation…

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FCIC Interviews Federal Government 2009 1117 – FCIC – Hearing – Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission – Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury – Closed Session  —  [BonkNote] 2009-11-17 FCIC staff audio tape of interview with Timothy Geithner, Department of the Treasury.mp3 [PDF-50p] 2009 1117 – FCIC – Hearing – Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission – Ben Bernanke, Chairman…

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AIG – Systemic Risk (p17) – One of the fears was that if things had gone in another direction and AIG had to be wound up, each one of the state commissioners would have had its own proceedings. That was part of what created systemic risk for AIG, where there would be a fragmented series…

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AIG – Life Insurance Companies – FRB 2008 0914 – FRB – FRBNY Alejandro LaTorre e-mail to Timothy Geithner re Pros and Cons on AIG lending – 21p 2008 0914 – FRB (Adam Ashcraft) – FCIC-AIG0021165 – 2p The Citi research piece suggests the could raise $20 billion by selling subs, but this is much…

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Europe – AIG – FCIC 2008 0915 – FCIC – FRB – (Alexander J Psomas) – FCIC-AIG0020S00 – 1p Within the wholesale arena, the firm has noteworthy exposures to large European banks, many using insurance vehicles to facilitate regulatory capital relief. Skinner

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Roles – AIG – FCIC Hi folks, Just want to reiterate some perspective that we all need to keep in mind. 1. We are not involved in AIG from a supervisory perspective (in contrast to LEH where we did have responsibilities as a result of PDCF) 2. As a result, we need to be clear…

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