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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 ... Mark Beeston, president of trade affirmation platform T-Zero, looks at novations

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Q&A - Rohan Douglas

The founder and CEO of Quantifi, the structured credit modelling and risk analysis firm, talks about the effects of the summer's volatility on the structured finance market, in particular how existing models have fared against the turmoil

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The psychology of it all

The events of the summer have ravaged investor confidence in high yield and leveraged loans. Tim Hall at Calyon looks at the effect of the credit meltdown on three constituencies of the market: investors, issuers and underwriters

Putting a price on subprime assets

Structured credit investors nursing losses from subprime-infected assets want better valuation models for illiquid securities such as MBS. But as Stewart Eisenhart reports, such solutions will be tricky to design and costly to implement

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Comcast

With the global primary markets almost grinding to a halt, this month we focus on a single deal: the $3 billion dual-tranche bond from US cable operator Comcast

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Bad luck, bad timing and bad bets ..

Extreme levels of volatility and parched liquidity have shaken up the global hedge fund industry. Nikki Marmery reports on the winners and losers in the summer's relentless ride

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