Credit markets
Has Asia got the appetite for local currency CDS?
The development of a robust local currency credit default swap market in Asia has come a step closer following the first public won-denominated CDS trade in Korea late last year. Alice Hales looks at whether the ingredients are there for such a market to…
The race to launch credit futures
Eurex, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange are locked in a struggle for market share of the new credit futures market. But are investors really sold on the new instruments? Matthew Attwood finds out
CDOs of ABS
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Calyon sues Mizuho over CDO team lift-out
The French bank files a lawsuit in a Manhattan court alleging that an "illicit scheme" resulted in 11 of its cash CDO team departing en masse to Mizuho
The Big Interview: Paul McCulley
Pimco's portfolio manager talks to Dalia Fahmy about chasing yield in an expensive asset class, and what he's expecting will trigger the next market downturn
Subprime: the burning issue for CDO investors
As the outlook for the US mortgages sector goes from bad to worse, which CDOs, investors, and dealers will be left holding a hot potato? Matthew Attwood finds out
Contrarians at the Gate
Why the doomsayers are wrong about the likelihood of imminent market shocks
DBRS breaks Europe
Breaking Europe
Has credit reached a tipping point?
Talking point
GFI and Icap launch rival tranche fixings
The brokers go up against existing tranche fixings of credit derivatives indices from Creditex and Markit. But mystery surrounds the launch as 'partners' keep mum on their involvement
Q&A: Sean Flannery
The chief investment officer for the Americas at State Street Global Advisors in New York discusses the opportunities offered by decomposition of risk as a result of the growth of the credit derivatives market
Passing the test
Equity derivatives - Algorithmic trading
The return of steepeners
Constant maturity swaps
Blossoming forex
Foreign exchange
Joining the bandwagon
Private Banking - Private equity
Korea lights the way
Cover story
Managed succession
CPDOs