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monoline insurer

/ ˈmɒnəʊˌlaɪn /

noun

  1. an insurer who undertakes to repay the principal and interest on a bond should the issuer default Also calledmonoline insurance company
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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They contended the Blackstone did not properly disclose the value of its investments in three companies – a monoline insurer, a semiconductor manufacturer and a real estate company.

The continuing battle that is being fought on the most fronts is between Bank of America — the bank that made the critical mistake of acquiring Countrywide Financial, once the country’s largest mortgage lender — and MBIA, the troubled monoline insurer that now warns it may not be able to keep paying claims on structured finance securities unless the bank pays it billions for the sins of Countrywide.

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