Commodities/Central banks
Italian telco Wind whips up a storm in credit markets with mammoth PIK note
The EUR1.7 billion record-breaking payment-in-kind deal priced well inside guidance levels, but there is concern that investors are underestimating the credit risk of such deals
Buying in bulk
Features
A view on 2007
Viewpoint
Exchanging places
Exchanges
Is da documentation working?
CDS on CDOs
Shifting sands
High oil prices and a lack of accessibility to reserves are reawakening oil majors' interest in Canada's oil sands. David Watkins looks at their potential and at the challenges involved in this capital-intensive mining operation
Trading opinions
Energy risk professionals from all over Europe gathered in London last month at the Energy Risk Europe conference to debate the hottest topics facing the industry today. The Energy Risk team bring you some highlights
CNP
Practitioner profile
A mutually exclusive proposition
Capital funding
The price of political risk
Korea credit
The MiFID Threat
Thanks to compliance, many of the European Union’s smaller exchanges now face fresh competition.
Catching the wind
After a 20-year hiatus, the US wind power industry has grown rapidly in the past two years. Its future, however, depends on Congress drawing up clear, long-term legislation, finds Neil O'Hara
Upwardly mobile
Korea