Feature
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
State of the art
Guido Ravoet, secretary general of the European Banking Federation, talks to Victoria Pennington about changes in regulatory framework, the substantial amount of work facing compliance and risk executives, and why he thinks the EU financial regulatory…
Fighting off the AML bug
Banks that create a positive compliance culture make a vital ally to law enforcement in the fight against money laundering. Nick Kochan reports
A question of discipline
OR&C INTELLIGENCE – OP RISK
The mystique of structured products
Editor's letter
CDO managers - Do the ends justify the fees?
Credit Risk