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Derivatives Defined

Contracts that derive their value from an underlying financial asset, such as publicly-traded securities and foreign currencies. Often used as a hedge against changes in value.

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Unwinding at AIG may prove ultimate test of government intervention

Published July 4, 2009, 10:08 pm, Pioneer Press

Gerry Pasciucco stared out from his office on midtown Manhattan's 48th Street, weighing the riskiest trade of his life. Over a 26-year career, he had risen to managing director at investment bank Morgan Stanley and earned a seven-figure-plus pay package. Now Edward Liddy, the new chief executive of insurer American International Group Inc., had just asked Pasciucco to head the AIG subsidiary at ...

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High-profile temp job at AIG

Published July 2, 2009, 11:04 am, Finance and Commerce

Gerry Pasciucco stared out from his office on midtown Manhattan’s 48th Street, weighing the riskiest trade of his life. Over a 26-year career, he had risen to managing director at investment bank Morgan Stanley and earned a seven-figure-plus pay package.

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Bank Woes Deepening in Europe

Published July 1, 2009, 12:36 pm, New York Times

When the financial crisis struck the global economy last autumn, European governments moved swiftly to keep their biggest banks from falling into an abyss — never mind fears over nationalization.

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Banc of America Securities-Merrill Lynch Research Hires Rachel McMinn, Masha Chapman and Sarah Stinson as U.S. ...

Published July 1, 2009, 9:00 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Banc of America Securities-Merrill Lynch Research today announced the hiring of U.S. Biotechnology analysts Rachel McMinn, Masha Chapman and Sarah Stinson as a part of plan to significantly increase the department's industry coverage.

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Bank of America Merrill Lynch Hires Alan Murray as Managing Director of Energy Corporate & Investment Banking

Published July 1, 2009, 5:00 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Bank of America Merrill Lynch today announced that Alan Murray will join the company's Global Corporate & Investment Banking business as managing director of Energy Corporate & Investment Banking in late September.

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Unwinding at AIG Prompts Pasciucco to Ponder Systemic Failure

Published July 1, 2009, 4:30 am, Bloomberg

July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Gerry Pasciucco stared out from his fourth-floor office at the hurly-burly of midtown Manhattan’s 48th Street, weighing the riskiest trade of his life.

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A.I.G. Offers Shareholders Little Hope for Recovery

Published July 1, 2009, 2:01 am, New York Times

Glum shareholders of the American International Group got apologies but little else at the insurer’s annual meeting on Tuesday, a day after the company disclosed that more material losses could still be coming from the derivatives portfolio that caused the company’s downfall last September, The New York Times’s Mary Williams Walsh writes.

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A.I.G. Offers Shareholders Little Hope for Recovery

Published June 30, 2009, 8:40 pm, New York Times

A.I.G. shareholders got apologies, but little else, from company executives at the insurer’s first annual meeting since its emergency bailout.

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AIG Has "Excellent Chance" To Repay U.S., Liddy Says (Update4)

Published June 30, 2009, 1:46 pm, Bloomberg

June 30 (Bloomberg) -- American International Group Inc. , the insurer bailed out by the U.S., has an “excellent chance” of repaying the government, outgoing Chief Executive Officer Edward Liddy said today at the company’s annual meeting.

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Address to the British Bankers' Association Annual International Banking Conference 2009

Published June 30, 2009, 4:37 am, UK Financial Services Authority

Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA British Bankers' Association annual conference. 30 June 2009 It’s a pleasure to address the British Bankers’ Association annual conference. Since Callum McCarthy spoke here as FSA chairman last year, an enormous amount has changed.

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