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The return of the bank balance sheet CDO
5. bank balance sheet CDOs
CDS: the building blocks for synthetic CDOs
2. credit default swaps
JDA analysis: Moody’s fights back
Moody's senior execs Ray McDaniel and Brian Clarkson speak out about the JDA debacle
The Big Interview: Chris Flanagan
Following the crisis in subprime mortgages in the US, the head of global structured finance research at JPMorgan in New York talks to Dalia Fahmy about spillover risks for auto loans
Invention is the mother of CDO market expansion
1. introduction
What's behind the demand for CDOs
3. product demand
When - not if - the cycle turns
10. survival strategies
How to keep the barbarians at bay
The recent attempted buyout of Sainsbury's showed that no one is safe from the clutches of private equity; cash-rich houses are now clubbing together in joint bids to target even the largest names. Matthew Attwood explains the consequences for credit…
Balance sheet or arbitrage CDOs?
4. balance sheet/arbitrage
CDOs of ABS
8. CDOs of ABS
CPDOs: riding the wave
11. CPDOs
Investors shy away from curve steepeners
Credit curve steepener trades using constant maturity swaps have emerged as an innovative way to take advantage of the much-anticipated rise in credit volatility. So what is hampering take-up of these products? By Hardeep Dhillon
The conundrum of overlapping
7. overlapping
CDOs of CDOs: the quest for yield
9. CDOs-squared
Russia wakes up to ABS
After years of being the 'next big thing', the Russian asset-backed securitisation market has finally arrived. Laurence Neville looks at the factors that have caused this sleeping giant to awaken
Q&A: Laura Fazio
The head of media and entertainment in the Americas at Dresdner Kleinwort in New York explains what film distribution securitisations offer investors
CDOs: what does the future hold?
12. the outlook
CLOs of leveraged loans
6. leveraged loan CLOs
Room for improvement
Sungard tops our survey of software vendors, its products proving a hit across the op risk and compliance spectrum. But op risk executives continue to demand more from the software industry, reports Dianne See Morrison
Decoding the data
With less than six months to go before Mifid takes effect, banks need to address the data-storage and management requirements they will face. Duncan Wood reports
KRIs: that difficult age
Key risk indicators (KRIs) were once the golden child of operational risk, but they are now in the midst of a turbulent adolescence. Peter Madigan asks whether KRIs will start to grow up in the next couple of years