Foreign exchange
Barclays offers volatility adjusted emerging markets exposure
Barclays Wealth has launched a new structured product offering protected exposure to emerging markets while adjusting for volatility. The five-year product is linked to the performance of the exchange traded fund (ETF) that tracks the iShares MSCI…
ETF Securities to launch entire range of ETCs
ETF Securities will introduce 33 short exchange traded commodities (ETCs) and 33 leveraged ETCs, providing listed access to an entire platform of short and leveraged commodity indexes.
Lack of legal action over Mifid so far
Despite last year’s warnings from regulators saying they would punish financial institutions who had not complied with the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) in time for the November 1 deadline, no European Union member states or UK-based…
Fitch sees rise in Asian securitisation in 2008
Fitch Ratings expects overall issuance in the non-Japan Asian cross-border securitisation market to rise after pricing conditions stablise in 2008 and following stagnant growth in 2007, the agency said in a report issued on February 4.
The right tools: equities vs CFDs vs spreads
Synthetic Prime Brokerage
From alpha to beta
Michael Azlen, founder of Frontier Capital Management, explains to David Walker why he is no alpha fan
The Power of HOLT™
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Editor's letter
Editorial
The Citi Guide to Structured Product Terminology
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Academy Insight
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Less is more
Utilities are leading the chorus for greater energy efficiency in the US. But, as David Watkins discovers, their drive to secure profits while selling less power is proving to be a major regulatory challenge
Tony Cocker
Tony Cocker, CEO of E.ON Energy Trading, is tasked with leading a new centralised European trading hub. It's a challenge he relishes, he tells Andrew Holt
The business of saying no
Rising energy prices have caused an upturn in demand response - or energy curtailment - in the last two years. Elisa Wood looks at how this is impacting power markets
Joint efforts pay off
Central banks
Rocked to the core
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Shinsei launches 'hybrid' bond
Japanese bank's first covered bond is deemed riskier than its European counterparts
Up for grabs
M&A
A unifying approach
Economic Capital
Interest rate risk of mortgage servicing rights
Dick Boswinkel and Kent Westerbeck examine the behaviour of mortgage servicing rights' duration and convexity and explain how they relate to the prepayment assumptions used in valuing MSRs