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  • Wis. Court Approves Ambac Settlement

    Posted on May 25th, 2010 editor No comments

    A Lafayette County, Wis., circuit court judge approved a deal in which 14 of the world’s largest banks will receive $2.6 billion in cash and $2 billion in debt as part of the restructuring of Ambac Assurance Corp. Ambac, a spinoff of MGIC Investment Corp. and an insurer of municipal bonds and bonds backed by subprime loans, owes the banks a total of $12.9 billion. Read the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article.

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