Resource Items: presentations

This graphic, prepared by Covered Bond Investor™ cofounder Mercy Jiménez, is a timeline showing key events in the (short) history of covered bonds in the U.S.  It includes early issuance by Washington Mutual and Bank of America, which halted as the global economic crisis began to mount.

To download a PDF, click on "Key Events Graphic" under "Attachment," below.

On the day before last month's landmark hearing on covered bonds by the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Services, Congressman Scott Garrett (R-NJ) held a telephone press conference.  Accompanying him were Tim Skeet, head of covered bonds at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and banking expert Bert Ely of the Ely & Company consulting firm.  Each of the three offered some initial remarks on covered bonds for the U.S. before answering questions from the news media.

This eleven-page document is the written testimony prepared by Alan Boyce for a hearing on covered bonds scheduled for December 15 by the House Committee on Financial Services (HCFS).  The title of the hearing was "Covered Bonds: Prospects for a U.S. Market Going Forward."

Boyce is CEO of Absalon, which he describes as "a joint venture between [financier] George Soros and the Danish financial system that is assisting in the organization of a standardized mortgage‐backed securities market in Mexico and elsewhere."

Topics in his prepared testimony include:

This five-page document is the written testimony prepared by Wesley Phoa for a hearing on covered bonds scheduled for December 15 by the House Committee on Financial Services.  The title of the hearing was "Covered Bonds: Prospects for a U.S. Market Going Forward."