Tavakoli Structured Finance , Inc.

Tavakoli Structured Finance ® (TSF®) provides expert experience and knowledge about maximizing value in the capital markets in the face of complexity and uncertainty. Clients include financial institutions, institutional investors, and corporations with a focus on structured financial products and corporate finance. Ms. Tavakoli was far ahead of the financial industry in pointing out the problems with the lax underwriting and rating of structured financial products noting underwriters are responsible for performing due diligence appropriate to the circumstances and must disclose material information. In her 2003 book Collateralized Debt Obligations & Structured Finance (and in earlier articles and books), Ms. Tavakoli pointed out grave flaws in the methodology for rating structured financial products. Ms. Tavakoli's was the first letter the SEC posted in February 2007 in response to its proposed rules for the credit rating agencies; she made the case that the NRSRO designation for the rating agencies should be revoked for structured products.