People
Going greener in Australia
Emissions trading
Fieling blue in Japan
Structured products
On the move
People
Lehman Brothers appoints carbon emissions head
Laurent Segalen has been hired as Lehman Brothers' global head of carbon emissions, responsible for structuring and origination.
Valensise appointed chief investment officer at Barings
Baring Asset Management, the London-based investment management firm, has appointed Marino Valensise as chief investment officer.
The OTC ambassador
Isda's deputy chief executive, George Handjinicolaou, talks to Alexander Campbell
Building through selling
Real estate
Italian unease
Italy
Leaking like a SIV
Structured Finance
No silver bullet
The emergence of contingent credit default swaps has presented banks with a new way to manage their counterparty credit exposures. However, they have important limitations, argues David Rowe
Shrugging off subprime
Risk Japan conference
US Treasury tells derivatives managers to improve Risk practices
Daily news headlines
Geen appointed general counsel for Isda
David Geen has been appointed general counsel for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda). He had previously served as Isda's European general counsel since November 2006, helping to develop the association's European loan credit…
Senior duo leaves Calyon after €250 million rogue trade
Two of Calyon’s most senior bankers have departed following the discovery of a rogue credit derivatives index trade earlier this month.
Algorithmics launches Algo First 4.0
Daily news headlines
South Korea, Taiwan again fail to achieve developed market status
London-based index provider FTSE Group has again left officials in South Korea and Taiwan disappointed, after it decided to keep them classified as advanced emerging markets, as it did in 2005 and 2006. The supplier of the world’s most used index series…