People
Colt: under fire
Cover story
Protected: yes Effective: maybe
Covered bonds
Raising the standard
Profile
Credit Crunch
Clive Horwood
Tied up in red tape
Spain focus
Measurement and attribution
Performance systems
The race for a suitable index
Forex benchmarking
Emerging opportunities
CDO investing
A blend of products
Monetisation
Small firms welcome EU proposals
EU PAPER
People moves
NEWS
ORX database expected early next year
FRONT PAGE NEWS
Op risk modelling for extremes
SMALL SAMPLE MODELLING
Credit and credibility
Credit risk modellers have made giant strides, but they still have to convince regulators that they can make the world a safer place. By Matthew Crabbe
What’s next for the exchanges?
Derivatives exchanges are wrestling with consolidation, new products and technology. John Ferry asks Rudolf Ferscha, chief executive of Eurex, Hugh Freedberg, chief executive of Euronext.Liffe and Nickolas Neubauer, chairman of the CBOT, to peer into the…
Listeds building
The over-the-counter market’s pace of development since the late 1980s has been astonishing, but a similar tale of growth, innovation and controversy can be told of the listed products markets. John Ferry looks at the major trends at the futures and…
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Green light for securities firms
New angles
Cleaning up the system
Compliance
Lazard Asset Management appoints ex derivatives strategist head of fixed income
Lazard Asset Management has appointed Steven Blitz as head of global fixed income. He joins from wealth management group Offitbank and was previously a derivatives product strategist at Salomon Brothers.