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First Trade Date for Ambac Financial Group, Inc. - subsidiary 3

 

 

Company NameFirst Trade Date (yyyy-mm-dd)
Ambac Financial Group, Inc. - subsidiary 31991-07-11

Company NameSymbol
Ambac Financial Group, Inc. - subsidiary 3ABK
History and Business of Company
(this information may include date of incorporation)
formerly: AMBAC INC /DE/ (until 1998-01-02)
Ambac Financial Group, Inc., headquartered in New York City, is a holding company whose subsidiaries provide financial guarantee products and other financial services to clients in both the public and private sectors around the world. Ambac Financial Group was incorporated on April 29, 1991. Ambac Financial Group provides financial guarantees for public finance and structured finance obligations through its principal operating subsidiary, Ambac Assurance Corporation. Through its financial services subsidiaries, Ambac Financial Group provides financial and investment products including investment agreements, interest rate and total return swaps, funding conduits, investment advisory and cash management services, principally to its clients which include municipalities and their authorities, school districts, health care organizations and asset-backed issuers. Information about Ambac Financial Group is available through our website at http://www.ambac.com. In addition, our press releases and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission are available free of charge on the investor relations portion of our website.

Ambac Assurance, which serves the global capital markets, is primarily engaged in guaranteeing public finance and structured finance obligations and is the successor to the founding financial guarantee insurance company, which wrote the first bond insurance policy in 1971. Financial guarantee insurance policies written by Ambac Assurance generally guarantee payment when due of the principal of and interest on the guaranteed obligation. Ambac Assurance seeks to minimize the risk inherent in its financial guarantee portfolio by maintaining a diverse portfolio which spreads its risk across a number of criteria, including issue size, type of obligation, geographic area and obligor.

Ambac Assurance has earned triple-A ratings, the highest ratings available from Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's"), Standard & Poor's Ratings Services ("S&P"), Fitch, Inc. ("Fitch") and Rating and Investment Information, Inc. ("R&I"). These ratings are an essential part of Ambac Assurance's ability to provide credit enhancement. See "Rating Agencies" below.

Ambac Credit Products LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ambac Assurance, provides credit protection in the global markets in the form of structured credit derivatives. These structured credit derivatives, which are privately negotiated contracts, provide the counterparty with credit protection against the occurrence of a specific event such as a payment default or bankruptcy relating to an underlying obligation (generally a fixed income obligation). Upon a credit event, Ambac is required to either (i) purchase the underlying obligation at its par value and a loss is realized for the difference between the par and market value of the underlying obligation or (ii), make a payment equivalent to the difference between the par value and market value of the underlying obligation. Substantially all of Ambac's structured credit derivative contracts are partially hedged with various financial institutions or structured with first loss protection. Structured credit derivatives issued by Ambac Credit Products are insured by Ambac Assurance. See "Business Segments-Financial Guarantee" below and "Management's Discussion and Analysis-Risk Management" in Ambac Financial Group's 2002 Annual Report to Stockholders for more detail about structured credit derivatives.

Ambac Financial Group's investment agreement business, conducted through its subsidiary, Ambac Capital Funding, Inc., provides investment agreements primarily to municipalities and their authorities, issuers of structured finance obligations and international issuers. Investment agreements issued by Ambac Capital Funding are insured by Ambac Assurance. Investment agreements are primarily used by issuers to invest bond proceeds until the proceeds can be used for their intended purpose. The investment agreement provides for the guaranteed return of principal invested, and for the payment of interest thereon at a guaranteed rate. See "Investment Agreements" below.

Ambac Financial Group provides interest rate swaps through its subsidiary Ambac Financial Services, L.P., primarily to states, municipalities and their authorities, issuers of asset-backed securities and other entities in connection with their financings. Ambac Financial Group also enters into total return swaps with professional counterparties through its subsidiary Ambac Capital Services LLC. Total return swaps are only used for fixed income obligations, which meet Ambac Assurance's credit underwriting criteria. See "Derivative Products" below.

Ambac Financial Group provides investment advisory, cash management and fund administration services through its subsidiary, Cadre Financial Services, Inc., and broker/dealer services through its subsidiary, Ambac Securities, Inc., primarily to school districts, hospitals and health care organizations, and municipalities.

As a holding company, Ambac Financial Group, Inc. is largely dependent on dividends from Ambac Assurance, its principal operating subsidiary, to pay dividends on its capital stock, to pay principal and interest on its indebtedness, to pay its operating expenses, to purchase its common stock in the open market and to make capital investments in its subsidiaries. Dividends from Ambac Assurance are subject to certain insurance regulatory restrictions. See "Insurance Regulatory Matters-Wisconsin Dividend Restrictions" below and "Management's Discussion and Analysis-Liquidity and Capital Resources" in Ambac Financial Group's 2002 Annual Report to Stockholders.

Materials in this Form 10-K may contain information that includes or is based upon forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements give Ambac Financial Group's expectations or forecasts of future events. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts and relate to future operating or financial performance.

Any or all of our forward-looking statements here or in other publications may turn out to be wrong and are based on current expectations and the current economic environment. Ambac Financial Group's actual results may vary materially, and there are no guarantees about the performance of Ambac Financial Group's securities. Among factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are: (1) changes in the economic, credit or interest rate environment in the United States and abroad; (2) the level of activity within the national and worldwide debt markets; (3) competitive conditions and pricing levels; (4) legislative and regulatory developments; (5) changes in tax laws; (6) the policies and actions of the United States and other governments and (7) other risks and uncertainties that have not been identified at this time. Ambac Financial Group is not obligated to publicly correct or update any forward-looking statement if we later become aware that it is not likely to be achieved, except as required by law. You are advised, however, to consult any further disclosures we make on related subjects in Ambac Financial Group's reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").








 

 

 

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