Think about it this way: did you take on a collateralized debt obligation?

Abacus, a synthetic collateralized debt obligation, was the focus of the SEC case.

The SEC alleges that Tourre misled investors about a synthetic collateralized debt obligation.

The financial innovation that made securitization of subprime mortgages possible was the collateralized debt obligation, or CDO.

The SEC is looking at how banks bundled and sold toxic mortgages in collateralized debt obligation deals.

The SEC is also investigating how banks bundled and sold toxic mortgages in collateralized debt obligation deals.

The SEC civil fraud suit stemmed from Goldman's marketing and packaging of the Abacus collateralized debt obligation.

The dispute, between British bank Barclays BARC.L and Morgan Stanley, centers around a collateralized debt obligation called Tourmaline.

Today, two of the five AAA-rated slices of the collateralized debt obligation have been downgraded to junk status.

The SEC contends Tourre misled investors in the Abacus investment vehicle, called a synthetic collateralized debt obligation, in 2007.

Moody's estimates Merrill Lynch could face another $6 billion of write-downs in its collateralized debt obligation portfolio.

That case stemmed from Goldman's marketing and packaging of a collateralized debt obligation that turned toxic during the financial crisis.

The Goldman case centers on a collateralized debt obligation, a debt instrument that was based on securitized subprime home mortgages.

In turn, these MBSs, sometimes as many as 150 of them, were packed into a collateralized debt obligation (CDO).

In that case, the SEC is looking at a specific synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO) that Goldman sold to investors.

The SEC last year targeted S&P for a possible civil lawsuit over its ratings of a collateralized debt obligation backed by mortgage securities.