Credit risk
Credit market front-running needs tackling, says Broadman
Front-running in the credit derivatives markets needs to be tackled, said Bart Broadman, founder and head of Singapore-based hedge fund Alphadyne Asset Management. Speaking at the second annual Asia Risk conference in Hong Kong on Monday November 20, he…
Isda takes first steps to settle Dura CDS
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has released a protocol for settling credit derivatives on Dura, the US auto parts producer that filed for bankruptcy on October 30.
Autos and telecoms dominate CDS trading again
Automobiles in the US and telecom companies in Europe were again the busiest sectors of the credit default swap market in October, according to a report from the US interdealer broker GFI.
Local opportunities
Emerging markets
CDOs reunited
Hybrid CDOs
Back to Basics
We take you back to the credit basics to review everything you thought you already knew but were too afraid to ask ... In the first of a two-part special, Saul Doctor, credit derivatives analyst at JPMorgan in London, looks at the fundamentals of credit…
CDS volumes hit new record ... but processing backlog spikes back up
UK regulator, the FSA, talks tough on the backward step in CDS processing that has resulted in unconfirmed trades rising to 20,000 from 16,000
Winner:NXP
In our monthly look at the credit market's most innovative deals, we focus on NXP's mammoth high-yield issue, the Alcentra CLO and Bouygues' 20-year bond
The great CDS debate which corner are you in?
Credit default swaps have become the instrument of choice for scores of credit investors - both for risk management and as another way to get exposure to credit. Yet there still remains a hardcore of sophisticated clients who continue to avoid CDS out of…
Credit model meltdown
Dealers are trading increasingly high volumes of bespoke tranches of synthetic credit risk with each other, yet there still appears to be little consensus on the application of credit models. Is there a danger the house of cards may come tumbling down?
The price of political risk
Korea credit
A new derivation
Profile: Rachel Hardee
Upgrading the rating process
As the debate rages over the usefulness of credit ratings, Moody's unveils a set of credit risk indicators derived from market movements. Will 'market implied ratings' silence the agencies' critics?
SG to launch tradeable CDS Index
France’s SG is planning to launch a tradeable credit derivative index, which has initially been dubbed Credindex. The product aims to make investing in credit derivatives simpler in order to appeal to segments of the market that are currently…
The correlation debate
In response to an article on asset value correlations for retail banking portfolios, published in the July issue of Risk, Ashish Dev of KeyCorp argues that the current Basel II rules are slightly too liberal for high-quality credit cards and overly…
GFI releases most-traded CDS list
Interdealer broker GFI has released its monthly report on the most actively traded US, European and Asian names in the credit default swap (CDS) market in September.
Basel II goals for capital adequacy “achievable”, according to S&P report
QIS5 findings show Basel II stabilises regulatory capital and improves risk management, but will spur industry consolidation.
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