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Nick Themelis
The CIO at e-trading platform MarketAxess tells Matthew Attwood how the company's technology helps clients achieve regulatory compliance
The matchmakers
Evolution Securities, a London investment bank previously associated with the equities market and its advisory work with small- and mid-cap clients, has branched into fixed income with the recruitment of two credit market stalwarts, Guy Cornelius and…
The City's boy in blue
For all the recent talk amongst banking chiefs and lawmakers of a return to a more 'vanilla' world of high finance, the sophistication of modern markets provides a fertile ground for fraudsters and insider dealers to operate without detection. To combat…
EC talks on CDS clearing house break down
The European Commission's drive to get derivatives market participants to formally commit to a central counterparty clearing house for over-the-counter CDS has stalled
Is it too late to revive the securitisation market?
First we were told it was undergoing a temporary hiatus, then it was stalled, now they're saying it's broken altogether. William Rhode takes a look at the global securitisation market to see what, if anything, can be done to restore its fortunes
Calls grow for scrapping of Basel II accord
Industry figures argue that the capital adequacy regime is not relevant in today's economic climate, and that regulators have already abandoned certain aspects of the accord on the quiet