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Firm or flexible?

Fonchim, Italy's largest occupational pension scheme, has been spared the worst of the fallout from the credit crunch thanks to tough investment laws. But the question over whether to loosen asset restrictions may be back on the table. Blake Evans…

Profile: Henrik Raber

Standard Chartered's new head of capital markets in Europe, America and Africa speaks to Credit about where he sees growth opportunities in the months ahead

Highly cultured

Patricia Jalleh, head of group operational risk at United Overseas Bank Group, says that to achieve a robust op risk framework, a risk culture must be well and truly embedded within the firm. And no risk culture is perfect - it's a matter of constantly…

Benoît de Vitry

Our 15th anniversary profile series continues as Roderick Bruce talks with Benoît de Vitry, head of commodities at Barclays Capital, about his memories of the past 15 years and thoughts on the future

Pimco's Pacific heights

Pimco (or Pacific Investment Management Co, to give it its full, somewhat unwieldy name) is the eight hundred pound gorilla of the fixed income markets. When the firm makes a major investment decision, like when it switched out of MBS in 2006, the world…

Michael Cosgrove

Our 15th anniversary profile series of key energy industry figures continues as Pauline McCallion talks with with Michael Cosgrove, head of commodities and energy brokerage, North America at GFI

The price isn't right

Former Saudi oil minister and head of Opec, His Excellency Sheikh Yamani, speaks to Roderick Bruce about his views on the past, present and future of the global crude oil markets

Full marks

Michel Marks, former chairman and board member of Nymex, tells Roderick Bruce about his role in taking the exchange from small potatoes to a cross-commodity powerhouse

National participation

National Bank Financial in Canada hopes a new generation of exchange-traded funds, which break new ground in the way the products work, will prove as popular as leveraged ETFs and propel the bank to another successful year

Delighted with deposits

Newcastle Building Society has been gradually building up its structured deposit business, including the launch of a new intermediary services arm in 2008. With the FTSE 100 index climbing and deposits backed by the government, the society is right to be…

Investor profile: Credaris

Scott Dowle, chief technology officer at London-based credit hedge fund Credaris, talks to Credit about 50%-plus returns in a bear market and the kind of tech infrastructure the firm deploys to manage its CDO holdings.

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