Regulation/Exchanges

The matchmakers

Evolution Securities, a London investment bank previously associated with the equities market and its advisory work with small- and mid-cap clients, has branched into fixed income with the recruitment of two credit market stalwarts, Guy Cornelius and…

The City's boy in blue

For all the recent talk amongst banking chiefs and lawmakers of a return to a more 'vanilla' world of high finance, the sophistication of modern markets provides a fertile ground for fraudsters and insider dealers to operate without detection. To combat…

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…

Madoff fraud puts focus on due diligence

As a swathe of investors reported sizable exposures to New York-based broker and hedge fund manager Bernard Madoff, several market players that had conducted due diligence on his firm told Risk that it had raised danger signals as far back as the late…

Cultural exchange

EEX and Powernext's agreement to share their electricity spot and derivatives markets represents groundbreaking Franco-German energy market co-operation. The CEOs of both exchanges talk to Roderick Bruce about the challenges involved and what the merged…

Doug Long

The business development head at structured finance software vendor Principia talks to Matthew Attwood about what it will take to restore investor appetite for structured products

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