Securitisation
The synthetic solution
CDO guide: cashflow versus synthethic CDOs
The reason to issue
CDO guide: market evolution
The start of the market
CDO guide: introduction
Structuring by seniority
CDO guide: tranching
A growth market
private placements
Hiring on the Street
fixed-income desks
The correlation conundrum
Credit Defaults
Shaking the money tree
Salary survey
Fin46: the confusion continues
securitization
CDO challenges in China
Regulations
Taking its toll
Profile
Securitisation specialists urge last-minute changes to Basel II
The securitisation industry is keeping the pressure on in the hope of some last-minute fine-tuning of the new Basel Accord, due for completion in mid-2004.
Correlation conflict
Default correlation
Parmalat focus: Tragedy or farce?
Corporate Europe has been gripped by a scandal that has led to the downfall of one of Italy's largest and most established companies – dairy producer Parmalat. Bondholders don't know whether to laugh or cry at the size of the fraud.
Notching: Poles apart
A long-running dispute between the 'big three' credit rating agencies concerning the practice of notching refuses to go away. Saskia Scholtes examines the latest contribution to the debate from economics consultancy Nera.
Poles apart
Notching
Tragedy or farce?
Parmalat focus
Equally accountable
International Accounting Standards
Asian CDOs to maintain growth
New angles
Tragedy or farce?
parmalat focus
Poles apart
notching
Secondary growth
Leveraged loans