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If there's one ghost that's haunted Wall Street since the 2008 financial crisis,
it would be the three letter acronym.
There's this natural understandable fear of three letter acronyms and finance.
You know, I've heard people say beware of bankers and their acronyms.
That's Robin Wigglesworth.
He's the editor of the FT's financial blog, Alphaville.
I talked to him the other day from our office in London,
and what he's referring to are things like CDOs and MBSs,
these complex financial products that brought the whole system crashing down.
And Robin says that recently,
There's a new three letter specter that's spooking Wall Street's watchers.
Well, it goes by the acronym SRT or synthetic risk transfer.
And, you know, SRTs, it almost sounds tragic, comically obtuse and dangerous, right?