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CDO-cubed en · NOUN

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1. A type of CDO (collateralized debt obligation) that invests in CDO-squareds.
   • A CDO squared is a CDO that only uses other CDOs as collateral. The CDO cubed is a special purpose vehicle with securitization payments in the form of tranches. A CDO cubed is backed by CDO squared tranches, allowing the banks to resell the credit risk they had taken once again by repackaging their CDO-squared. 2012, Oonagh McDonald, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac: Turning the American Dream into a Nightmare, Bloomsbury Academic, page 317:
   • But what if you can't sell all the bottom tranches of the CDO-squared securities? You guessed it. You form another pool of those untouchables—called a CDO cubed—and tranche away again. 2009, Les Leopold, The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity and What We Can Do About It, Chelsea Green Publishing, page 92:
   • Given the number of CDO Squared transactions in the marketplace, and the continued narrowing of corporate spreads, the emergence of CDO Cubed could be regarded as almost inevitable. 2005, Jan Job de Vries Robbé, Paul U. Ali, Securitisation of Derivatives and Alternative Asset Classes: Yearbook 2005, Kluwer Law International, page 41:

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