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What to do with the toxic debt

The issue of how to tackle the vast quantities of impaired assets lingering on banks' balance sheets has given rise to several possible solutions, chief among which is the notion of a 'bad bank'. Credit asks five market participants how such a scheme…

Roche

An in-depth look at the primary market's most innovative transactions. This month: the $16bn deal from Swiss pharma firm Roche, and Westpac's yen issue

Missing link

Banks are unable - or unwilling - to hold bond inventory for resale in the secondary markets, meaning that their traditional role as middleman in the buying and selling of bonds is not being fulfilled. William Rhode looks at whether things will continue…

Madoff feeders' due diligence attacked as lawsuits mount

Investors that lost billions of dollars to Bernard Madoff have filed several class-action lawsuits claiming massive due diligence failures by fund managers who placed money into the alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme, even though scant detail has emerged…

More MCAs needed to meet equity derivatives targets

Participants in the equity derivatives market say a significant amount of work remains to be done on standardising documentation before it can meet regulators' electronic processing targets for over-the-counter trades.

European CDS regulation 'inevitable' - EC official

The European Commission (EC) is moving ahead with plans to enforce central clearing of credit default swaps (CDSs), despite a plea by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda) to resume dialogue on the issue.

Update: Liquidity check goes live on Scoach

Scoach has launched a new tool for investors to check the quality of market makers for listed structured products online. The system, which is called Quote Quality Metrics (QQM), has been introduced by the Swiss structured products exchange to inject…

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