Infrastructure/People

Powerful ambition

Backed by the financial might of Russia's Renova Group, Avelar Energy is investing in conventional and renewable energy assets across western Europe. Avelar's CEO, Igor Akhmerov, tells Roderick Bruce about his company's strategy

Power struggle

Forward liquidity has been lacking in the UK power market since 2002, and attempts to improve the situation have met with little success. Roderick Bruce considers what the future may hold for UK power trading

Profile: David Slade

The chairman of the Loan Market Association, also leveraged finance head at CSFB, talks to Matthew Attwood about the path to recovery for the beleaguered loan market

Reviving RMBS

With only one public RMBS issue in the UK during the whole of 2008, the market would seem to have hit rock-bottom. But moves are afoot to help restore confidence in the market and enable banks to finance mortgage lending, as Laurence Neville reports

The return of the real money manager

With hedge funds feeling the pinch from the liquidity squeeze, real money managers have emerged as a reliable source of liquidity, earning themselves mandates from investors with cash to put to work. Credit gains an exclusive insight into how one of the…

Asian retail focus

The process of tempting Asian retail investors back to credit has been an uphill struggle for distributors, who have tried to stimulate interest with a series of structured first-to-default notes that give sovereign exposure. But heavy mark-to-market…

The Big Interview: Goran Lind

Sweden's success in handling a severe credit crisis it experienced in the 1990s has been cited as a model for economic policy-makers faced with the current credit crunch. Goran Lind, advisor to the executive board of the Swedish central bank, the…

Structured credit's re-formation

The structured credit market has been blamed for much of the turmoil in credit and, by association, the wider global economy. But many market participants remain convinced that structured credit has a major role to play in the financial landscape of the…

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