Foreign exchange
Banks devise 'super conduit' in bid to save Sivs market
Can rescue fund M-Lec bring much-needed liquidity, or is it a temporary measure destined to fail?
Changing the rules
Regulation
Russia reels from liquidity crisis
Central bank lowers minimum reserve requirements in a bid to buoy up vulnerable banks
Banking on a fall
Rates
Plugging the data gaps
Technology
UK revisits plans to boost fixed-rate loans
Treasury agrees to re-examine proposal for government to write long-dated interest rate derivatives
Aussies show their backbone
Australia
Not stressed enough
Stress testing
Starting from zero
The EBRD's Alex Tanase has worked with mortgage lenders across central and eastern Europe to develop nascent mortgage markets - often starting from nothing. By Dippy Singh
Apocalypto Now
A misguided trust in models to predict likelihood of default lies at the heart of this instability, reckons Nigel Sillis
Q&A: Rick McVey
In the wake of news that Thomson is to sell off part of TradeWeb, we ask the chief exec of e-trading platform MarketAxess how he sees the electronic bond trading landscape evolving
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…
How bonus structures contributed to the credit crisis
For a fistful of dollars
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…
Markit to distribute data on Reuters 3000 Xtra
The new service - the first time Markit has distributed data via a third party - will give Reuters users access to pricing on the iTraxx and CDX indices, as well as end-of-day pricing on other credits
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 ... Mel Mitchley, industry relations director at Callcredit, looks at the credit search market
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…