Opinion

Credit derivatives: the next generation

Now that credit default swaps and other credit derivatives are moving into the mainstream of financial trading, a new range of products and structures are being developed using synthetic techniques. Calyon's Loic Fery and Ally Chow review some of these…

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 ... Dominic Pegler, head of fixed-income strategy for Europe at Barclays Global Investors in London, explains how a bond is priced

Legal Spotlight

US Congress is considering new legislation that could enable CDO issuers to sell greater chunks of their CDOs to pension plan investors. Todd Garvelink and Howard Mulligan explain

Awakening giant?

Some circumstances endure long enough to become embedded in the unexamined assumptions of a generation. In the case of the Japanese economy, these assumptions could prove costly, argues David Rowe

Home-host conflict

Despite structural attempts at supervisory co-ordination, international banking groups need to foster bilateral understanding with their subsidiaries' host regulators, argues David Rowe

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