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France Telecom’s imminent €1.5bn bond hits spreads by 7bp
France Telecom’s plans to tap the bond market for the first time this year with a seven-year, €1.5 billion bond issue caused its cost of credit protection on five-year debt to widen by 7 basis points to 280/290bp today.
Natexis hit by heavy equity derivatives losses
French bank Natexis Banques Populaires has made significant losses from its equity derivatives trading business due to poor risk control and failures in the bank’s valuation models.
ING provides swap for first Korean cross-border RMBS
Dutch bancassurer ING is to provide a 21-year swap for South Korea’s first cross-border residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS). “This is the first 21-year cross-border swap done in the Korean market,” said Marc Choo, a Hong Kong-based director in…
Asian high-yield bonds should prove a safe haven for 2003, says ING
Healthy economic growth in Asia and continued demand for Asian bonds from Asian investors – known as the ‘Asian bid’ – should immunise Asia’s high-yield bond market next year from the default problems plaguing the global corporate bond market in 2003,…
JP Morgan launches LSE-listed certificates
JP Morgan has launched the first listed certificates registered on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), targeted at retail investors. The move follows the launch in November of covered warrants in the UK.
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S&P says Basel II helping to improve German banking
FRANKFURT – The proposed Basel II bank safety rules, weak operating performance and shareholder value considerations are behind a trend to more efficient capital allocation, prudent cost control and risk-adjusted pricing in German banking, a leading…
Wharton adds options data to online research tool
The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School is adding historical options data from OptionMetrics, a New York-based research and consulting company, to its web-based securities information service.
Basel II helping to improve German banking, says S&P
The proposed Basel II bank safety rules, weak operating performance and shareholder value considerations are behind a trend to more efficient capital allocation, prudent cost control and risk-adjusted pricing in German banking, a leading credit rating…
Nasdaq launches European tracker ETF
The Nasdaq Stock Market has launched a Nasdaq-100 European Tracker, an exchange-traded fund (ETF), on the Nasdaq Europe exchange today under the symbol EQQQ. The fund is designed to follow the Nasdaq 100 index and is composed of the top hundred non…
Deutsche Bank seeks plays on EU convergence
Deutsche Bank has launched a Central European foreign exchange (CEFX) convergence index designed to provide optimally weighted risk/return exposure to the Polish, Hungarian, Czech and Slovakian currencies. The index is tradable as a spot currency, with…
FXall adds liquidity providers
FXall will announce the addition of four new liquidity providers to its platform today, the multi-bank trading portal told RiskNews ’ sister publication FX Week .
Danske restructures FX sales
Danske Bank has reorganised its forex sales team in London into separate units for corporate and institutional customers.
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