Securitisation
The leaders of the pack!
family office leadership summit
Subprime hope
As the fallout from the troubled US subprime mortgage market continues to spread, Laurence Neville looks at what the future holds and examines some important factors that must be addressed to ensure its survival
Running dry
The UK has seen an old-style bank run like those of the nineteenth century. German lenders have struggled to prop up failing conduits. Contagion from the US has reached Europe but not in the way anyone expected. Subprime lenders, in particular, have been…
Talking point - The leveraged loan logjam
With the value of delayed leveraged loans nearing $400 billion, will sufficient liquidity return to the market to get these loans off the lending banks' balance sheets? Credit asks four experts
The contagion will spread
All eyes have been on the residential mortgage-backed sector but, as our new columnist points out, commercial real estate may be the next to provide some nasty surprises
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
Un accenno di panico
Commento
Agenzie sotto accusa
Agenzie di rating
Berating agencies
Rating Agencies
Rischio contagio
Subprime europei
Conduit concerns
Taiwan credit
Leaking like a SIV
Structured Finance
Credit funds: Behind the rhetoric
As fund after fund succumbs to emergency measures to halt redemptions, shore up funding or sell off structured credit assets, the terms used to describe them are too often blurred and confused.
Collateral damage?
credit
Take coverrrrrr!
insurance
No sign of immediate end to volatility rollercoaster
Moves by central banks to inject liquidity into the troubled financial markets have been welcomed by investors, but grounds for pessimism still persist in the form of ratings actions on SIV-lite deals
The Big Interview: Joseph Mason
The Big Interview
Now what for the credit market?
As confusion reigns in the global credit markets, we asked four top investment banks to put their cards on the table, and publish their medium-term outlooks. Report by Nikki Marmery
Rating agencies in the firing line
Rating agencies
Brushfield Capital CDO
This month's deals are particularly deserving of mention given the recent market turmoil. We highlight Brushfield Capital's CDO, the Dalradian CLO and Gazprom's $1.25bn bond