Credit markets
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 ... Erwan Curien, head of the quantitative team at technology vendor Sophis, explains how credit default swaptions work
Credit dealers increase investment in ops
Pressure from regulators to streamline operations processing is a factor
PPF urged not to ignore CDS in risk assessment
Isda is concerned the PPF will ignore the protection offered to pension funds by CDS
Deutsche's £30m CDO hole
The German bank's missing millions result in the dismissal of a trader and highlight industry-wide CDO pricing problem
GFI group - The 'dequity' house
Debt and equity arbitrage is a hot topic at the moment and inter-dealer broker GFI believes it has established a head start in this area by merging its debt and equity brokerage and data businesses. Saskia Scholtes talked to three senior executives from…
Honesty best for preventing bank crises, report says
Ethics are far more important than economics in preventing bank crises, according to a report published today by Berlin-based corruption watchdog Transparency International.
Prime time
Prime brokerage
Treading carefully
Private equity
Avoiding prying eyes
Cover Story
Taming the lion city
Cover story: Retail CDOs
Chinese banks launch securitisation schemes
China's securitisation market gets off the mark
Linking asset classes
Commodity hybrids
Beyond value-at-risk
Comment
Deciding on a future
Information markets
Deutsche trader dismissed
New angles
Driving in the wrong gear
Hedge fund perspective
Sub-prime time
Mortgages
Getting flattened
Cover Story
Reinsurers hit capital markets
New angles
New index taps into ABSs
New angles
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