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INDEX
ABN AMRO
Accounting
fair-value
Lehman, discrepancies exposed
Achleitner, Dr. Paul
AIG. See entries under American International Group (AIG)
Akers, John
Allianz, AIG capitalization talks
Allison, Herb
Altman, Roger C.
American Express
Dimon at
Lehman, purchase of
American International Group (AIG)
capital, efforts to raise. See American International Group (AIG) capitalization efforts
chief executive officers (CEOs). See Greenberg, Maurice Raymond “Hank ”; Sullivan, Martin; Willumstad, Robert
chief operating officer (COO). See Cassano, Joseph
counterparty global exposure
credit default swaps (CDS)
debt insurance, cost increase
failure, potential impact of
Fed bailout. See American International Group (AIG) bailout
federal charges against (2003-2005)
Financial Products (FP) status
Goldman Sachs, collateral demands of
Greenberg, settlement with
history/growth of
JP Morgan, demands for disclosure
liquidity problem
losses (2008)
profits, payment to employees
quantitative analysis, use of
