Lewis "Lew" Ranieri (born 1947) is a former bond trader and former vice-chair of Salomon Brothers who is credited with popularizing the concept of securitization in the financial world. Ranieri's ...

When Lewis Ranieri invented mortgage bonds, he never thought it would turn out this way. Four decades ago, Mr. Ranieri was at the helm of a revolution in how Americans finance their homes. Until ...

Lewis Ranieri is considered the father of the mortgage-backed security. His invention enabled millions of Americans to afford homes, but its distortion and manipulation also helped cause the ...

In December, Ranieri Solutions LLC, founded by chief executive Lewis S. Ranieri, raised $500,000 in debt financing, the first part of a $1.2 million round, according to Securities and Exchange ...

(FORTUNE Magazine) – Lewis Ranieri is besieged by thoughts--an endless parade of business ideas, inventions, novel approaches, and the occasional house design. "It's a plague," says the 56-year ...

Lewie Ranieri is known as the father of the mortgage-backed security. Now, he's crusading to rescue the real estate market that his invention helped destroy.

Lewis Ranieri is credited with inventing mortgage-backed securities two decades ago, and recently he sounded warnings about mortgage risks. Yet he couldn't save his own company from getting ...

Financial journalist Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball, penned his first work – a bestseller – in 1989. In Liar's Poker, Lewis recounts his four-year stint at Salomon ...

New Residential Investment Corp.’s acquisition of Shellpoint Partners, a mortgage vehicle that is owned in part by Lewis Ranieri’s Ranieri Partners, is now complete. The companies announced ...

Lewis Ranieri, the pioneer of the home-mortgage-bond market, is turning his sights onto how to be part of what he says could be "the largest real-estate restructuring" in history: commercial real ...