People
Talk is cheap
Rating agencies
Back in Black
New York-based asset manager BlackRock's buying up of distressed mortgage portfolios - most notably its purchase of UBS's portfolio of subprime and other non-agency securities totalling approximately $22 billion - has been making headlines. What does it…
Liquid gold?
Covered bonds
Faking it
Insider fraud
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Grahame Mcgirr & James Bagshawe
All the talk in the financial markets is about going back to basics. This drive towards simplicity and transparency is what underpins Islamic finance. Credit speaks to two senior executives from recently launched Shariah house Gatehouse Bank about a…
Jeff Sprecher & Sunil Hirani
The chairman and CEO of derivatives exchange ICE and the CEO of derivatives processing firm Creditex talk about the companies' recent merger, and how the CDS markets will cope with a unique set of challenges ahead
We're all Swensenians now
The appeal of commodities used to be the equity-like returns combined with low correlation to stocks and bonds. That all changed once the commodities bandwagon started rolling
A silver lining for quants
Salaries might be flat at best compared with 2007 but quants' unique skillsets are in demand
Gulf states face inflation threat to single currency
Plans by the Gulf Co-operation Council to launch a single currency by 2010 are beginning to look optimistic, with the spectre of runaway inflation throwing the whole scheme into doubt
Called to account
Dealers have criticised fair value accounting on illiquid assets as exacerbating the subprime crisis. A growing number of banks and industry bodies have called for a suspension of mark-to-market accounting for illiquid instruments. Are the accounting…
Malaysia Investors warned to mind the ratings gap
This year has seen a flood of bond issuers tapping the Malaysian markets but investors should be aware that local agencies are working on a different ratings scale to international standards
A new 'information age' for credit
Credit Crisis
Nigel Sillis
The director of fixed-income and currency research at Baring Asset Management talks to Matthew Attwood about bubbles, credit risk and mushroom picking
CDS clearing house tops regulators' to-do list in drive to tackle counterparty risk
The New York Fed is keen to establish a central clearing house for CDS, with CCorp poised to launch such a service. But will the recently merged Creditex-ICE throw its hat into the ring?