Credit risk
Loans return?
Loans
Restoring ratings
CDO ratings
Faltering flows
Prime broking
Central clearing house becomes a reality
Clearing Corporation, a Chicago-based clearing house, and the New York-based Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) will launch central counterparty clearing services for a range of over-the-counter credit derivatives in the third quarter.
Arbitrage, super-senior and single-tranche CDOs
4. Other CDO types
Monoline insurers and the super-senior bombshell
9. Monolines
The spread of collateral in the CDO market
5. Other collateral types
CDS and synthetic CDOs
3. Credit default swaps
Summer 2007: When the music stopped
8. Credit crisis
Markit's Red now free to low-volume buy-side firms
London-based data provider Markit has created a free licence for the Markit Reference Entity Database (Red), aimed at smaller buy-side firms.
Buying power?
GSEs
Wider Libor-OIS spreads can offer cheaper MBS funding opportunities
UBS report reveals investors could be able to access attractive mortgage-backed securities funding
A bright future?
Mexico
Finance and banking dominate April US CDS trading
The banking and financial services sectors dominated trading volumes of credit default swaps (CDS) in the US in April, according to GFI, a New York-based interdealer broker. The most actively traded names were Washington Mutual, Lehman Brothers and…
Buying power?
GSEs
The squeeze is on - The clampdown on CDO ratings
The rating agencies have faced a barrage of criticism over their role in last year's subprime meltdown. This year they have been focusing on ensuring that a repeat of the ABS problems do not occur in other segments of the structured credit market. But…