Central banks

The subprime shake-down

The subprime mortgage market - the root of all the summer's troubles - may well be in turmoil but nobody is suggesting it is about to disappear as a source of financing for securitisations. The question is, what part will it play when the dust finally…

Legal Spotlight

In the first of a two-part article, Laurence Pettit, a partner at Baker & McKenzie, argues that credit rating agencies are not the malign influence that some would portray them as; rather they are a product of a regulatory regime that gave them the space…

Hedge funds: The bargain hunters

There are rich pickings to be had amongst the ruins of the summer's ravaged credit markets: hedge funds that survived the crisis are now putting together funds to invest in the wide availability of cheap securities. Nikki Marmery meets the executives at…

Market Graphic - Fed rate cuts

Stephen Gallagher, chief US economist at Societe Generale, looks at whether Fed rate cuts will succeed in calming the troubled waters of the US economy

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