as "super senior"); Junior AAA; AA; A; BBB; Residual.

Separate special purpose entities--rather than the parent investment bank--issue the CDOs and pay interest to investors. As CDOs developed, some sponsors repackaged tranches into yet another iteration, known as "CDO-Squared" ("CDOs of CDOs") or created insurance markets for them with "synthetic CDOs".

In the early

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