Infrastructure
Market snapshot
Tim Mortimer of Future Value Consultants looks at pricing issues of structured products in different markets and provides his trade of the month
Innovation dawns in the Nordics
Regional Profiles
London & Capital bucks the trend
Fund managers tend to dismiss structured investments out of hand. But London & Capital has gone against the grain and established its own structured products division to target high-net-worth individuals, family offices and other distributors. Amanda Lee…
CFTC demands Platts data
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed an application in Columbia District Court, seeking to enforce a subpoena for energy-related documents it served on publishing group McGraw-Hill. Part of an ongoing investigation into energy…
Set for meltdown?
Cover story
Stunned by subprime
CDOs of ABSs
Stuck on the margins
Prime broking
Singapore stumbles
Exchanges
The power law
Masterclass
Emissions gain credit
Carbon finance
TriOptima launches portfolio reconciliation service
Stockholm-based software company TriOptima, which produces the triReduce termination service, has launched triResolve, aimed at providing continuous reconciliation of derivatives portfolios.
Micro scope widens
Micro-finance
Tranches of trepidation
Correlation
A dangerous idea
Encouraging and supporting sound internal risk management has become an important aspect of effective financial regulation. Imposing a regulatory capital charge for stress-test losses would undermine this important objective, argues David Rowe
A growing gap
More and more dealers are entering the hedge fund derivatives market, and ever more complex structures are being launched. But while the fund-linked derivatives market has grown strongly, there is little consensus on the best way to manage the risks…