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Creditex and Markit to run Isda's tear-up service

Interdealer broker Creditex and London-based market data provider Markit will run an industry-wide tear-up service for credit default swaps under the aegis of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda), starting later this month.

Power in numbers

Amid the ongoing M&A wave in the exchange and interdealer broker space, six smaller independent brokers have joined forces in a bid to stay afloat in ever-deepening liquidity pools. David Watkins reports

Marty Malinow

Newly crowned WRMA president Marty Malinow tells David Watkins that there's fewer than six degrees of separation between life, business and the weather markets

A meeting of minds

Now in its 12th year, the Energy Risk USA conference in Houston once again brought together key figures in the energy industry to debate the hottest topics. The Energy Risk team reports

Back in Black

New York-based asset manager BlackRock's buying up of distressed mortgage portfolios - most notably its purchase of UBS's portfolio of subprime and other non-agency securities totalling approximately $22 billion - has been making headlines. What does it…

Structural modelling of subprime mortgages

With the economy still suffering from the waves of the credit crunch, triggered by a housing price slump, Yong Kim provides a structural model of subprime mortgages based on housing market risks. Given the enormity of the subprime mortgage market failure…

Grahame Mcgirr & James Bagshawe

All the talk in the financial markets is about going back to basics. This drive towards simplicity and transparency is what underpins Islamic finance. Credit speaks to two senior executives from recently launched Shariah house Gatehouse Bank about a…

Back to basics

We take you back to the credit basics to review everything you thought you already knew but were too afraid to ask ... Avarina Miller, senior vice-president at Demica, looks at trade receivables

Jeff Sprecher & Sunil Hirani

The chairman and CEO of derivatives exchange ICE and the CEO of derivatives processing firm Creditex talk about the companies' recent merger, and how the CDS markets will cope with a unique set of challenges ahead

We're all Swensenians now

The appeal of commodities used to be the equity-like returns combined with low correlation to stocks and bonds. That all changed once the commodities bandwagon started rolling

Called to account

Dealers have criticised fair value accounting on illiquid assets as exacerbating the subprime crisis. A growing number of banks and industry bodies have called for a suspension of mark-to-market accounting for illiquid instruments. Are the accounting…

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