Foreign exchange
Transmission possible?
US grid operators are hoping that a new stance on transmission planning will act as a hedge against an uncertain energy future. Yet such a strategy comes with its own challenges, writes Elisa Wood
Mercurial talents
Led by oil traders Marco Dunand and Daniel Jaeggi, Mercuria Energy Group's turnover has grown fivefold in only three years. Roderick Bruce talks to Dunand, Mercuria's head of global trading, about the company's rapid expansion and its plans for 2008 and…
The year ahead
From widespread house price falls and increases in foreclosures, to funding innovations and alterations in regulation, 2008 will be a year of unprecedented change and adjustment for mortgage banks. Mortgage Risk, together with a select panel of leading…
Plan for the worst, says regulator
The UK Financial Services Authority has warned lenders to prepare in case the funding markets stay shut
Industry sets template for loan modifications
A framework sponsored by the US administration to soften the impact of subprime resets provides comfort for servicers and clarity for investors
Storms brewing
Litigation
Market making put to the test
Covered Bonds
Forget moral hazard
Interview
European buyside survey provides encouragement
A poll of investors in European asset-backed securities suggests demand will be reduced but not extinguished for the year ahead
Protecting commercial real estate portfolios
Commercial property
Mixed reaction to central bank liquidity push
Central banks acting in concert eased liquidity troubles at the end of 2007 but a more fundamental improvement in money markets will be harder to achieve, say analysts
Perfectly balanced
Denmark
Offering solutions
Mortgage software company Sopra Group aims to support the industry's pan-European expansion, as Tammo van Leeuwen, head of product management at subsidiary BAI, tells Dippy Singh
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