News/Technology
CPDO ratings scorned at credit risk summit
Rating agencies have come under attack once again for assigning ratings to constant proportion debt obligations (CPDOs), during a panel discussion at Risk’s 2007 Credit Risk Summit Europe in London.
Concerns abound over EC energy package
The EC's third energy package, which recommends that generators and suppliers sell off their transmission assets, has met with resistance from incumbent utilities and raised questions among traders. Oliver Holtaway reports
EC energy package meets mixed response
The EC’s third package of EU energy market liberalisation measures has stopped short of insisting on full ownership unbundling of transmission infrastructure from generation and supply assets, and of creating a fully-fledged European energy regulator.
Credit Suisse expands algorithmic trading business
Credit Suisse has launched its algorithmic trading business, Advanced Execution Services (AES) in seven new markets: Canada’s Venture Exchange, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Malaysia, Mexico and South Africa.
UBS launches multistrategy commodity platform
UBS has launched an algorithmic trading platform for commodities, the UBS Commodities Portfolio Algorithmic Strategy System (Comm-PASS).