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BBVA strengthens Asian business
BBVA Global Markets has reinforced its team in Asia by appointing Daryl Chen as head of equity derivatives sales. The hire is cited as part of the bank's build up of its team in Asia and its franchise in Greater China both in equities and fixed income.
Bossuyt, head of Islamic finance and structuring at Deutsche Bank departs
Geert Bossuyt, Deutsche Bank's head of Islamic finance and head of structuring for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has left the bank, along with Ricardo Honegger, head of global markets, MENA (Middle East & North Africa). Honegger will retire…
Insurance debt: Don't take a tumble
Holders of bonds from the insurance sector should prepare themselves for a rough ride in 2009. Lingering concerns over the exposure of certain names to toxic structured credit assets and the difficulty of raising more debt in the current environment are…
Q&A: David Pagliaro & Peter Jones
Two S&P executives explain how the rating agency's ABSXchange platform for structured products and the VSS valuations service benefit investors in today's unpredictable markets
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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…
UBS exits exotic structured products business in FICC
UBS is fully exiting its exotic structured products business within its fixed income, commodities and currencies (FICC) division, the bank has confirmed. As part of the restructuring, four senior managing directors have left the bank: Todd Morakis, head…
Clean and transparent
The process of approving CDM projects, though generally much quicker than it used to be, is still not as transparent as people would like, finds Katie Holliday
Regulatory ‘changes needed’ for distribution of structured products says Hong Kong SFC
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), in its report on issues raised by Lehman Brothers Minibonds to the Financial Secretary, has recommended a number of changes to regulation governing the selling and marketing of structured products in…
Is it too late to revive the securitisation market?
First we were told it was undergoing a temporary hiatus, then it was stalled, now they're saying it's broken altogether. William Rhode takes a look at the global securitisation market to see what, if anything, can be done to restore its fortunes
Fool's gold - How securitisation promised much ... but delivered little
The notion that securitisation as a technique is able to increase liquidity in the financial system by making marketable securities out of hitherto illiquid debt has been exposed as flawed, argues Anastasia Nesvetailova. It's not that financial…
New year, new hope for euro corporate bonds
Now that issuers have woken up to the unpalatable truth that wide spreads are here to stay - for the short term at least - a mini-rally in European bond issuance has ensued. Laurence Neville looks at how the corporate bond market is adjusting to its new…
Counting on the counterparty
High-profile banking failures have led to uncertainty over the ability of credit derivatives counterparties to honour their side of the trade. Contingent credit default swaps, or CCDS, are designed to mitigate this risk. But will plans for a central…
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