In his testimony to Congress, chairman Bernarke said that the Federal Reserve Board will implement the following measures to strenghten consumer protection on mortgages:
* improve the disclosure of the terms
* write the disclosures in a form suitable for the layman
* carry out focus group study to check if the layman understand the terms.
* ensure that the terms are fair to the consumers
Lesson: We can learn from the experience of USA. We have to make sure the financial products sold in Singapore meet the above tests.
Mr. Tan , there are two CLNs soon to be launched by SocGen .The reference entities are triple As sovereign securities ; Singapore, US, Canada,Australia and UK. The underlyings are 100 investment grade CDOs.More information will be out soon.
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