Central banks
CDS and synthetic CDOs
3. Credit default swaps
Summer 2007: When the music stopped
8. Credit crisis
CDOs and the subprime mortgage market
7. Subprime mortgages
Growing ambition
The appointment of Doug Naidus as global co-head of residential mortgage origination and trading at Deutsche Bank is a reflection of how much has changed since the bank bought MortgageIT last year. Here, he talks with Mortgage Risk about the firm's move…
Buying power?
GSEs
Wider Libor-OIS spreads can offer cheaper MBS funding opportunities
UBS report reveals investors could be able to access attractive mortgage-backed securities funding
Mortgage lenders to follow in HBOS and RBS footsteps
Rights issues are the flavour of the month, with mortgage lenders following some of the larger banks' example as they seek to boost long-term solvency ratios
Get a fix on floating-rate risk
Commercial Property
A bright future?
Mexico
Promising developments
Historically, cross-border mortgage lending has been a limited market with select players offering piecemeal loans to those looking for holiday homes. Now originators are assessing the potential of so-called emerging mortgage markets, where new ventures…
Investor confidence in renewable energy still strong
Investor confidence in renewable energy companies is still strong despite the credit crunch, according to an online poll conducted by advisory firm Ernst & Young.
Fed expert to speak at OpRisk Asia
Daily news headlines
Keydata adds seventh Dynamic Growth plan and more
Keydata Investment Services has unveiled an array of new structured products. Its five-year Dynamic Growth Plan Plus issue seven offers two times any rise in the FTSE 100 index, subject to a maximum investment growth of 90%. Issue eight of the same plan…
Fed proposes unfair practices rules for cards and overdrafts
Daily news headlines
Talking Point
Emerging markets
Crude surpasses $123 as Democrats blame speculators
Crude oil closed at a new record high of $123.53 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex).
BIS sets up new Americas council
Daily news headlines
Fed ramps up bank support to $75 billion
The US Federal Reserve has increased the scale of its Term Auction Facility (TAF), intended to provide extra liquidity in the securities market, and has relaxed its criteria for collateral in another support, the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF).
Regulators push for operations changes
The derivatives industry faces regulatory demands to improve operations issues. In recent weeks, both the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (PWG) and the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) have pushed dealers to enhance the infrastructure for…