Loans
Credit investors circle CRE loan market as refinancings loom
A foot on the property ladder
US distressed debt funds look to euro crisis for opportunities
Stressful situations
Leveraged loans may benefit from investor hunt for yield
Loans left alone
Corporates turn to private placements in bid for diversification: Angus Whelchel profile
Profile: Angus Whelchel
A liquid market – banks tap insurers' liquidity reserves
A liquid market
Counterparty risk concerns drive Enel to bond market
Profile: Alessandro Canta
US lending landscape still bleak, Fed finds
Credit supply and demand are both still shrinking, though there are signs of a recovery among larger banks and companies.
RBS fined £29 million for sharing pricing information
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has settled with the OFT for breaking competition rules with Barclays
US budget drops fossil fuel subsidies
US President Barack Obama has used his 2011 budget to call for an end to fossil fuel subsidies, apportioning funds to the clean energy sector instead.
US props up Bank of America
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Fed props up AIG with $85 billion loan
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Whither originate and distribute?
Some argue the crisis in structured credit markets signals the demise of the originate-and-distribute model of banking, but this fails to take into account the pattern of all revolutions, argues David Rowe
Basel II will trim riskier mortgages in UK
UK mortgage lenders bracing for Basel II
New Zealand looks afresh at capital adequacy to control lending
NZ re-considers Basel II timing
Covenants: crisis of confidence
Financial covenants that rely too heavily on ratios are just not sophisticated enough to predict the likelihood of default, argues Sarah Woo. Loan originators must learn a trick or two from their colleagues in portfolio management and develop…
Covenants: crisis of confidence
Financial covenants that rely too heavily on ratios are just not sophisticated enough to predict the likelihood of default, argues Sarah Woo. Loan originators must learn a trick or two from their colleagues in portfolio management and develop…
Basel I must be made more risk-sensitive for general banks, say Independent Community Bankers
The 1988 Basel Accord, also known as Basel I, must be improved to be more risk-sensitive for the benefit of community banks, said the Independent Community Bankers Association (ICBA), the Washington, DC-based membership organisation of 5,000 community…
S&P versus Basel II: A fragile accord
By publicly casting doubt over aspects of the Basel II Accord's methodology, rating agency Standard & Poor's is voicing concerns shared by many in the banking industry. Joanne Hart asks how this dispute may affect bondholders and the market in general.
Risk USA 2003: Loan managers increasingly rely on credit derivatives, says CIBC's Bennett
Stephen Bennett, global head of portfolio management at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), believes credit derivatives are playing an increasingly important role in the loan market, both as hedging instruments and by helping facilitate mark-to…