Foreign exchange

Profile: Conrad Hewitt

The widespread belief that fair value accounting somehow contributed to the financial crisis is ill-informed - or so the SEC's chief accountant explains to Alexander Campbell

The repo effect

The ability of banks to use securitisation deals as collateral for repo funding from central banks has resulted in larger deals with more esoteric assets. Laurence Neville looks at how this change is affecting the securitisation market as a whole

Insurance debt: Don't take a tumble

Holders of bonds from the insurance sector should prepare themselves for a rough ride in 2009. Lingering concerns over the exposure of certain names to toxic structured credit assets and the difficulty of raising more debt in the current environment are…

Deals of the Month: Staples

One of the most encouraging aspects of the strong pace of corporate issuance in the dollar market in January, in addition to the sheer volume of new paper, was the willingness of investors to leave the security of the investment grade's higher echelons…

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