Feature/Central banks
On the backburner
Special Report: Credit derivatives
Corporates burned
Cover story
An auspicious debut
Risk Korea conference
The blame game
Accounting
Points of principle
Liquidity risk
Keydata offers income or growth
Keydata Investment Services has launched the Extra Income Plan, which offers either an income or growth. The income option pays a quarterly coupon of 2.075% pa while the growth option returns 58.5% at maturity.
PowerShares launches Frontier Countries ETF on Nasdaq
Invesco PowerShares has launched its frontier countries ETF, designed to offer access to particular equity markets in the Middle East and North Africa, on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
Power in numbers
Amid the ongoing M&A wave in the exchange and interdealer broker space, six smaller independent brokers have joined forces in a bid to stay afloat in ever-deepening liquidity pools. David Watkins reports
Buckle up
Market Analysis
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
Cash bonds take a different track
As anyone on the financial markets rollercoaster will know, predicting the future path of your investments is next to impossible, particularly in the current economic climate. But a dislocation has appeared between the equity/CDS markets, which are…
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
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…
LDI and beyond
Pension Risk Management
