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Babson appoints chief information officer
Babson Capital Management, based in Springfield, Massachusetts, has named Praveen Kumar as its new chief information officer.
Lehman makes global SWF push
Lehman Brothers has appointed Makram Azar to a new role as global head of sovereign wealth funds.
Deutsche succumbs to crisis with €141m Q1 loss
Deutsche Bank chalked up losses of €141 million for the first quarter of 2008, after digesting a €2.7 billion writedown on leveraged loan commitments, commercial real estate and residential mortgage-backed securitities (RMBS) exposures, the firm has…
Markit to launch synthetic municipal bond index
Markit plans to launch its Markit MCDX index on May 6, an index of 50 municipal bond credit default swaps (CDS).
New Record for Crude Amid Supply Disruptions
Crude Oil reached a new record of $119.93 a barrel in overnight electronic trading, up from $119.90 reached last week on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex).
Swiss Re’s Conning to manage post 2012 fund
Conning Asset Management Limited, a fully-owned subsidiary of Swiss Re, has been appointed to manage a pioneering EUR 125 million post-2012 Carbon Credit Fund.
KfW board changed in wake of IKB woes
Ingrid Matthaus-Maier has signalled her intention to retire in September from the board of KfW Bankengruppe, the Frankfurt-based federal German bank.
EC outlines changes to Capital Requirements Directive
The European Commission (EC) has launched a public consultation on over 50 technical changes to the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD), which sets out the regulatory capital financial institutions must hold to cover their liabilities.
Calyon appoints Arnold Kan for Hong Kong post
Calyon has named Arnold Kan as its deputy head of fixed-income markets for Asia excluding Japan.
Emerging markets could produce next boom-bust cycle
As regulators clamp down on securitised products, leveraged investors are racing to new markets. JP Morgan analysts say the crisis might be shifting leverage from structured products to emerging markets.
UBS and Merrill Lynch lose energy traders
The latest sub prime mortgage-related write downs at investment banks UBS and Merrill Lynch, have hit their energy trading arms, and a number of traders have resigned or been made redundant in recent days.
SEC charges trader with market abuse
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Solvency II: QIS4 second workshop underway
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AMI releases UK mortgage proposals
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Data security a priority, says FSA
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New transparency rules for credit rating agencies
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Fallon calls for central banks to take charge
Responsibility for banking supervision must reside with central banks, insists a former UK government minister.
UBS launches dry freight index
UBS has launched a tradeable index with dry freight derivatives as the underlying, dubbed the UBS Blue Sea Index (UBS-BSI).
UBS launches freight market investor index
Investment Bank UBS has launched the UBS Blue Sea Index (UBS-BSI), the first tradable investment index in the dry freight derivatives market.
IDBI Fortis Life offers structured products in India
IDBI Fortis Life – a joint venture between state-run Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI), Indian commercial bank Federal Bank and Belgian-Dutch bank Fortis – has received approval to sell a range of structured products in India.