As an institutional broker-dealer for more than 20 years, CRT has consistently provided its clients with creative, idea-driven advice and solutions through targeted research and trading of High-Yield, Distressed, Convertible, and Emerging Market Debt Securities and Equities. In June of 2009, a controlling interest in CRT was purchased by a group of investors led by Ron Kripalani (former President of Countrywide Capital Markets) and Ben Carpenter and Jay Levine (former Co-CEO’s and Co-Presidents of RBS Greenwich Capital). In addition to strengthening and expanding CRT’s legacy businesses, the firm’s new leadership has focused on building out two new important business lines to serve CRT’s institutional clients – the sales and trading of Mortgage and Asset Backed Securities and U.S. Treasuries.