Equity markets
C&W: needs retuning
Credit of the month
Protected: yes Effective: maybe
Covered bonds
A strategic focus
Comment
Tracking data
Corporate actions
What’s next for the exchanges?
Derivatives exchanges are wrestling with consolidation, new products and technology. John Ferry asks Rudolf Ferscha, chief executive of Eurex, Hugh Freedberg, chief executive of Euronext.Liffe and Nickolas Neubauer, chairman of the CBOT, to peer into the…
Listeds building
The over-the-counter market’s pace of development since the late 1980s has been astonishing, but a similar tale of growth, innovation and controversy can be told of the listed products markets. John Ferry looks at the major trends at the futures and…
RiskNews review
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Green light for securities firms
New angles
US domestic politics have dominated equities sector
Potential removal of double taxation paid on dividends gives hope to US investors.
Japanese decline calls for government intervention
Can corporate restructuring help Japan's economic decline?
Going long in Russia
Market is benefiting from a relative insulation from the impact of a global double-dip recession.
Pinching the systems penny
Trading technology
Tied up in FASB’s knots
Corporate equity tools
Taking stock of SSFs
Single-stock futures
Forced to fit in
Cover story
Commerzbank: kaput?
Credit of the month
Macquarie buys Merrill's Australian instalment warrants business
Australia's Macquarie Bank has purchased the instalment warrants business of Merrill Lynch following the restructuring of the US bank's Australian operations.
Read the small print
With prime brokers becoming an increasingly powerful force in the market, how closely should hedge fund managers examine the underlying agreements with their chosen provider?
Covered call strategy to offer income and growth
New star's hybrid fund aims to smooth highs and falls