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Bidding deadline passes but Northern Rock's fate still unclear
Continued funding lines from the Bank of England could be critical as key shareholders shift in favour of a restructuring rather than an outright sale of the troubled UK lender
Surface tension
Swaps
Rise and fall
House price movements are set to become the dominant factor determining what US mortgage banks lend in future. Understanding house price appreciation and modelling it accurately has never been so critical. William Rhode reports
First in the firing line
Regulation
The Big Interview: Ian Bell
S&P's European structured finance head defends the agency over accusations that they could have done more to anticipate this summer's crisis. He talks to Matthew Attwood
Profile: Greg Froese
Matthew Attwood talks to the investor relations manager at hedge fund Lionhart about his experiences this summer and when he expects to see value in the post-crunch market
Profile: Arthur Calavritinos
Arthur Calavritinos runs one of the top-performing high-yield bond funds in the US, the John Hancock High Yield Fund. He tells Dalia Fahmy about the investment strategies that he hopes will insulate his investments against the current credit squeeze
Talking point - Structured finance CDO downgrades
In October one rating agency downgraded over $10 billion in US structured finance CDOs. Against a backdrop of further negative rating actions, Credit sought reaction from market participants
MPs slam rating agencies over Northern Rock
Representatives from the three main rating agencies go before a House of Commons committee to answer for their supposed failings in warning investors of trouble at the embattled UK lender
Markit group buys up iTraxx/CDX index family
The London-based data provider signs a deal to buy the credit derivatives indices from the bank consortia that previously owned and managed them
Roundtable: Sounding out the buy side
With the markets still reeling from the liquidity crisis, Credit gathered together three luminaries from the buy side to discuss the effects of the summer slowdown and, more importantly, how things will pan out over the next few months
FSA: UK banks' progress on TCF too slow
REGULATORY UPDATE
Pricing of critical illness insurance - art or science?
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