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The perspective from France
French focus
ABS market in post-crisis record
New Angles
Dealing with the flak
Profile
Asian products off the blocks
Structured products
Capital thinking
Manuel Méndez aims to have BBVA among the first to qualify for Basel II’s advanced risk capital approaches.
Job moves
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “I have come to you with a problem – we need to outsource our balance-sheet funding” From an e-mail sent last year by John Rusnak to an unnamed counterparty, referring to his deep-in-the-money options trades, or ‘synthetic loans'.
Servicing the e-industry
Investing in IT infrastructure development is essential in today’s often fractured environment of rival software languages and specific trading needs. Clive Davidson discovers what is on offer to bring these disparate elements together
Scaling the wall
Corporate hedging
Crude futures hit six-month highs
Crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) hit six month highs of $25.61 a barrel (bbl) on March 21 as a combination of rising demand, continued supply curbs and fears of US action against Iraq drove prices higher.
Credit derivatives majors form data alliance
Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan Chase have launched a credit derivatives market data scrubbing and sharing project meant to head off disputes among market participants over the terms of their contracts.
Prebon backs coal growth
Prebon Energy, the New Jersey brokerage firm that specialises in physical and financial energy products, has opened a coal desk.
Talent spotting
Ronald Neumunz tells Jeff Benjamin why LJH is drawn to Europe and how the company plans to capitalise on the emerging hedge fund management talent
'The Day the Bubble Burst'
By Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts (1979)
Drivers of dollar swap spreads
Fixed0income strategy
Squeezing the best from hedge fund diversification
Hedge fund investing
Merchants’ Exchange expands into energy futures
The Merchants’ Exchange, the tiny St Louis-based independent trying to make a niche for itself in electronic commodity derivatives trading, is to list six new energy futures contracts.
BNL plans weather desk for Italy
Rome-based Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) is planning to set up a weather derivatives desk, which could add to the recent thrust of new players in the weather risk market. BNL hopes to establish the desk, specifically for the Italian market, by the…
BHP Billiton buys into weatherXchange
Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton has bought a 7.5% stake in weatherXchange, an online weather derivatives data service, set up by the UK’s Meteorological Office and London-based Umbrella Brokers in June last year. BHP Billiton has an option to…
Weather risk solutions
Germany