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The true cost of no-cost mortgages

Banks offering no-cost mortgages have been accused of hiding the real cost of the loan from borrowers. But as Andrew Kalotay and Jinghua Qian explain, lenders can also run into problems if they fail to calculate correctly the prepayment behaviour of…

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Protected from the subprime chaos

The Latin American region has suffered its fair share of financial difficulties - most of them self-inflicted - but a period of economic stability and rebuilding has left many LatAm countries well equipped to withstand the fallout from the recent…

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Tim Fletcher

Insufficient data is at the root of the credit market's ruined summer, Baseline Capital's sales and marketing director tells Matthew Attwood

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The contagion will spread

All eyes have been on the residential mortgage-backed sector but, as our new columnist points out, commercial real estate may be the next to provide some nasty surprises

Back to Basics

We take you back to the credit basics to review everything you thought you already knew but were too afraid to ask ... Mark Beeston, president of trade affirmation platform T-Zero, looks at novations

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Q&A - Rohan Douglas

The founder and CEO of Quantifi, the structured credit modelling and risk analysis firm, talks about the effects of the summer's volatility on the structured finance market, in particular how existing models have fared against the turmoil

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