Structured products
The listing option
Following the banking crisis, the burden of counterparty risk has increased the need for transparency and liquidity in the structured products market. While a move to listing products and exchange-trading helps offer this, how does it affect counterparty…
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UK pension funds look to hedge against falling inflation
UK pension funds are looking at inflation structured products in order to hedge the risk embedded in pension liabilities they pay at retirement, amid a falling inflation environment. Pension fund liabilities are adjusted for Limited Price Indexation (LPI…
Natixis job cuts fail to impress
Announcing 40% job cuts in its complex capital markets business failed to improve the reputation of the French bank Natixis, which has seen its shares and financial strength rating fall today.
EC launches public consultation on hedge funds
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Closer regulatory links needed, says US structured products industry
An overwhelming majority of members of the US structured products industry are calling for closer links with regulators in the wake of the financial crisis, a survey by the US Structured Products Association (SPA) has shown. The survey, which was…
Madoff fraud puts focus on due diligence
Several market players that had conducted due diligence on his firm told Risk that it had raised danger signals as far back as the late 1990s.
US muni debt now priced as riskier than corporates
Protection on US municipal debt is currently more costly than that on US investment-grade corporate bonds. Spreads on Markit's five-year MCDX index, which references credit default swaps (CDS) on municipal bonds, were at 275 basis points as of December…
Citi rings the changes in structured products reorg
Citi has announced a host of changes to its structured products business, including the appointment of Jean-Luc Bernardi as Emea head of structuring. Bernardi has developed and led the Emea Equity Derivatives Structuring Team since 2006 and will be…
S&P predicts defaults to snowball in 2009 and 2010
A fifth of European speculative-grade companies could default by 2010, a report released on Wednesday by Standard and Poor's (S&P) stated.
Isda prepares to settle Ecuador CDS
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda) is drawing up a settlement protocol for credit default swaps (CDS) based on the sovereign debt of Ecuador, which refused to make a $30.6 million scheduled interest payment last week.
Morgan Stanley falls as losses continue
Morgan Stanley's shares fell 6.8% this morning after it announced heavy losses and continuing mortgage-related writedowns.
Fed's near-zero target startles markets
Yesterday's news that the US Federal Reserve would cut its target fund rate to between zero and 0.25% rallied US stocks and sent Treasury bill yields to new lows.
BNP Paribas tempts French investors with latest Zanzibar fund
BNP Paribas has launched the latest version of its capital guaranteed Zanzibar formula fund, which offers investors a potential return of 20% over its two-and-a-half year life. Zanzibar 10 is linked to the performance of 20 major global stocks, banking…
Mark to market needs refining, not scrapping - SEC
Christopher Cox, chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), backed fair-value accounting in a speech to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants last week, but said some aspects, particularly rules on impairment, needed…
New York Fed buys AIG assets at half price
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has paid $19.8 billion to troubled insurer AIG for residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) with a face value of $39.3 billion.
€10 billion recapitalisation programme for Irish banks
Irish financial institutions are to benefit from a €10 billion stimulus plan put forward by the Irish government and private investors to recapitalise banks.
$2.1 billion loss ends 2008 on sour note for Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs has posted a $2.12 billion net loss for the fourth quarter - its first since going public in 1990 - citing "extraordinarily difficult operating conditions, including a sharp decline in values across virtually every asset class".