Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 5, 2024

But in our experience, we’re seeing them efficiently transfer the credit risk of assets, but keeping the customer relationship, it’s a very important distinction. Either you have the asset and the credit risk, I would imagine. This is the product that, that allows them to transfer credit risk.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. But there are so many tools at your disposal, and let alone how much duration you’re taking, how much interest, how much credit risk you’re taking, illiquidity, et cetera. You know, the leverage in the system builds. What’s that process like?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. RITHOLTZ: … which people tend to ignore when things are pretty — let’s say, in 2007, a lot of people aren’t thinking about counterparty risk.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And I think a lot of investors and, and lenders and really lost their way and agreed to terms and conditions that in under today’s market environment would not be acceptable levels of leverage that would not work. And, and as a result, there is a, a condition where there’s risks and opportunities in the current market.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And up until that moment in time, we didn’t spend a lot of time on credit risk in mortgages. We didn’t really have to model credit risk because that was, that risk was taken by the agencies. But in these private labels, you had the, the market was taking the credit risk.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

So obviously, risk managers, you know, and CROs were very focused on how do we manage that risk and diversify that credit risk that they were taking on in mid-market companies. Because you can’t lever it, you can’t lend it six times leverage today when the rates are 11 percent versus 6, right?

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