Securitisation
All fall down
CDS Settlement
Quanto sicuri sono i rating?
Basilea 2
Gathering confidence
Securitisation
The South African credit derivatives market - where to from here?
Sponsored statement - Absa Capital
Il restyling dei rating
Rating di CDO
Jump-start needed
Securitisation
Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch for $50 billion
Bank of America announced today it will acquire Merrill Lynch in a $50 billion all-stock deal, rounding off an explosive weekend on Wall Street.
Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch for $50 billion
Bank of America announced today it will acquire Merrill Lynch in a $50 billion all-stock deal, rounding off an explosive weekend on Wall Street.
Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch for $50 billion
Bank of America announced today it will acquire Merrill Lynch in a $50 billion all-stock deal, rounding off an explosive weekend on Wall Street.
Two Credit Suisse brokers charged with ARS fraud
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused two Credit Suisse brokers of duping their customers into buying more than $1 billion of subprime-backed auction rate securities (ARS).
A fruitful time for hybrids
Structurers are coming up with novel ways of tapping investor demand for credit-linked products without the default risk associated with the previous generation of structured products. Their answer? Hybrids. Regis Benichou and Arnaud Scemama of Calyon…
Reviving RMBS
With only one public RMBS issue in the UK during the whole of 2008, the market would seem to have hit rock-bottom. But moves are afoot to help restore confidence in the market and enable banks to finance mortgage lending, as Laurence Neville reports
Column: Andrew Kasapis
The events of the past year have played havoc with the cash bond/CDS basis, with traders struggling to make the strategy profitable. Is there a way of making alpha from this trade?
The return of the real money manager
With hedge funds feeling the pinch from the liquidity squeeze, real money managers have emerged as a reliable source of liquidity, earning themselves mandates from investors with cash to put to work. Credit gains an exclusive insight into how one of the…
Structured credit's re-formation
The structured credit market has been blamed for much of the turmoil in credit and, by association, the wider global economy. But many market participants remain convinced that structured credit has a major role to play in the financial landscape of the…
Grinding to a halt
Securitisation
Das riskante Jahr
Var-Umfrage
No escape
Credit
Routes for restructuring
Synthetic credit
Rising above it?
Merrill Lynch's decision to ditch its collateralised debt obligation portfolio in July has been spun as a brave attempt to draw a line under its structured credit losses. But how good is the deal, and does it represent a template for other firms…
Expect the unexpected
Stress testing