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August 2008

Credit Ratings And the Alternative Banking System: A Critical Assessment
     Arturo Cifuentes
     Singapore, August, 2008

July 2008

How to Avoid a Ratings Fiasco
     Arturo Cifuentes
     Financial Times, July 09, 2008

March 2008

Credit Crisis Lurches from Bad Numbers to Bad Writing
     Arturo Cifuentes
     Financial Times, March 11, 2008

Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs): Basic Concepts & Recent Developments
     Arturo Cifuentes & Georgios Katsaros
     Connecticut Insurance Department Seminar, Hartford

December 2007

Weak Basel II may not be enough to Calm Credit Fears
     Arturo Cifuentes
     Financial Times, December 18, 2007

October 2007

The One-Factor Gaussian Copula Applied to CDOs:
Just Say NO (Or, If You See A Correlation Smile, She Is Laughing At Your "Results")

     Arturo Cifuentes & Georgios Katsaros
     Journal of Structured Finance

Modeling Credit Risk in Fixed Income Portfolios
     Arturo Cifuentes & Georgios Katsaros
     CFA/ Fixed Income Management Annual Conference, Boston

September 2007

Credit of the Big Three Rating Agencies under Fire
     Arturo Cifuentes
     Financial Times, September 12, 2007

June 2007

CDOs and their Ratings: Chronicle of a Foretold Disaster
     Arturo Cifuentes & Georgios Katsaros
     Total Securitization/ Institutional Investor, June 4, 2007, pages [11-12]

April 2007

Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs): Key Concepts and Recent Developments
     Arturo Cifuentes & Georgios Katsaros
     U.S. Department of the Treasury Workshop, Office Of The Comptroller Of The Currency, Washington D.C.

New CDO-Related Products
     Georgios Katsaros
     U.S. Department of the Treasury Workshop, Office Of The Comptroller Of The Currency, Washington D.C.

March 2007

To Measure is to Understand:
Can the Rating Agencies Measure? Do they Understand?

     Arturo Cifuentes
     Terrapinn CDO conference, New York
     (also presented in a slightly modified fashion at the IMN/CDO Conference, Amsterdam, September 2006)

February 2007

Securitization Goals and Mechanisms: Securitization 101 & 102
     Georgios Katsaros
     Washington D.C.

December 2006

Catastrophe Bonds: Current Status and Future Possibilities
     Arturo Cifuentes
     New York

June 2006

CDOs and Correlation: A Few Modeling Misconceptions
     Arturo Cifuentes
     CFA Institute Conference Proceedings Quarterly, June 2006, pages [53-58]

May 2006

The Role of the Manager in a CDO Transaction
     Arturo Cifuentes
     CDO Summit Asia 2006, Taipei, Tiawan

March 2006

I Like your Model: "I just don't Feel Comfortable with the Results"
     Arturo Cifuentes
     CDO and Credit Derivatives Conference, IMN/Euromoney, New York

November 2005

Truth or Consequences:
Default Correlation Assumptions in the Modeling and Structuring of CDOs

     Arturo Cifuentes
     CFA Institute/ Structured Credit Instruments Conference, New York

October 2005

Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs): Basic Concepts
     Arturo Cifuentes
     New York

Three Controversial Thoughts and One Wild Idea
     Arturo Cifuentes
     IMN CDO Conference, Venice, Italy

June 2005

Credit Derivatives: Concepts and Applications Part 1
     Arturo Cifuentes
     BCI Workshop, Santiago, Chile

Credit Derivatives: Concepts and Applications Part 2
     Arturo Cifuentes
     BCI Workshop, Santiago, Chile