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Prior to the 2008 financial crisis, the US government insisted that mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were not part of the federal balance sheet. Their debt did not count towards official ...

A newly appointed First Brands Group LLC board committee is investigating the company’s use of roughly $2.3 billion in off-balance sheet financing, which fueled investor concerns before the auto-parts ...

NEW YORK, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Auto parts maker First Brands has appointed a special committee of independent board directors to investigate its off-balance sheet financing arrangements and whether its ...

First Brands creditors have hired a financial-investigations firm that probed fraud-tainted crypto exchange FTX to aid an examination of the off-balance sheet financing the auto-parts supplier relied ...