Infrastructure
TABX launches into rocky ABS market
Dealers started trading tranches of the ABX indices just as fears of subprime mortgage losses sent spreads reeling and caused wildly divergent pricing on the new product
Purva Sule
The head of the financial services practice at Pipal Research in Chicago explains why more investment banks are offshoring credit research
Subprime mortgages trigger ABX sell-off
Investors in the subprime mortgage sector might have been expecting some kind of market correction after a jump in delinquency rates at the back end of 2006. What they weren't expecting was a full-scale stampede out of the ABX index. Credit reports
FSA and CESR make preparations for Mifid
REGULATORY UPDATE
GAO supports Basel II; chides US regulators
COVER STORY
Getting the balance right
Inflation
South Africa - The African frontier
Securitisation
A friendly helping hand
Practitioner profile
Getting ahead of the game
Technology
Internal models in Solvency II
Comment
Going up ... the UK bounces back
UK retail
Market snapshot
Market analysis
Commodities: Getting ahead of the curve
Special report: Focus on Germany
SPA newswire
North America
Giving clarity
Hedge funds
Feeling the heat
Cover story
A collective move
Singapore regulation
The metals bubble
Commodities
Seesaw Supervision
Thailand
Lean liquidity
Range accruals
Sounding the retreat
Hybrid securities