Blackstone Group
Talking Heads 2023: A turf war in credit markets
Banks are looking to reclaim territory they previously ceded to market-makers and private funds
Lifetime achievement award: Stephen Kealhofer
Risk Awards 2023: KMV co-founder helped usher in a new era of credit risk analysis – at banks and investors
Lazard and Pimco profit from shorting Hong Kong dollar
Repeat interventions from HKMA fail to revive a currency under pressure from rising US rates
Surging Vix would turbocharge Blackstone Credit strategy
Unique high-yield systematic strategy has outperformed equivalent ETF by 18% over five years
CDSs get subjective
Legal certainty loses out to commercial objectives in race to fix manufactured defaults
Isda proposes fix for ‘manufactured defaults’
Failure-to-pay must be linked to a deterioration in creditworthiness to trigger CDS payouts
Best commodity research, Asia: Refinitiv
Energy Risk Asia awards, 2018: Shining a light into China’s opaque oil imports provides clients with valuable insight
Global investors go local for Indian distressed assets
Number of domestic companies set up to invest in bad loans doubles in two years
CFTC probed CDS market under last enforcement head
Goelman compares manufactured payouts to match-fixing, and says CFTC has jurisdiction to bring case
Santander reaps capital benefit with close of toxic asset sale
The bank aims to have CET1 above 11% by end-2018
Fixing CDSs: lots of patches, no magic wand
Isda response to Hovnanian controversy could open new loopholes, traders warn
Blackstone-Hovnanian CDS deal revives credit rules debate
Rumoured triggering-for-financing arrangement sparks calls for more legal protection for sellers
People moves: UBS hires new Apac investment bank vice-chair
Also: Commerzbank’s trade finance Asia head; Blackstone nabs JPM Japan chief; and others
Deal of the year: Blackstone/Morgan Stanley
Risk Awards 2015: Bank arranged record margin loan in 30 days
Financial firms must be prepared for cyber infiltration – panel
Focus needs to be on reacting, not stopping every threat
Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (Baam)
Americas Awards 2012
Partnership at heart of Blackstone investment into emerging hedge fund managers
Service provider rankings 2011
Seed capital for hedge funds set to hit $5 billion in 2011
Blackstone, Skybridge Capital, NewAlpha Asset Management and Revere Capital are all raising funds
Recent US deals could power more M&A
Mergers and acquisition activity could be on the up in the US power market in spite of staid economic conditions. Pauline McCallion examines the outlook for M&A
SEC sues Blackstone exec for insider trading
Losses & Lawsuits
Blackstone to cover private equity out of Hong Kong
US private equity firm Blackstone Group is expanding its Hong Kong office to cover private equity as well as its existing fund-of-hedge-fund activities in Asia.