The company would be split into a municipal bond insurer and a structured finance insurance company, in a "good-bank/bad-bank" plan that would split off the relatively safe business of insuring municipal debt from the riskier business of guaranteeing repackaged mortgages and other debt.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Bond insurer FGIC asks to split in two
(Reuters) - FGIC Corp, a bond insurer whose main unit has lost its top credit ratings from all three agencies, has told New York regulators it wants to split into two companies, New York Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo said on Friday.
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