The Sunshine Report

Securitization Accounting Rules Are Changing

Accoun­tants are chang­ing the rules gov­ern­ing most of the shadow bank­ing sys­tem and almost no one is notic­ing. About 10 days ago the Finan­cial Account­ing Stan­dards Board con­firmed that by year end “secu­ri­ti­za­tion account­ing” will be dif­fer­ent and the changes are likely to have a big­ger effect on finan­cial insti­tu­tions than mark to mar­ket account­ing. […] [read full story]