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Barcap launches new structured deposits
Barclays Capital has launched two new structured deposit accounts for its offshore bond series: the three-year guaranteed digital and the five-year guaranteed FTSE 100 deposit accounts.
Is it too late to revive the securitisation market?
First we were told it was undergoing a temporary hiatus, then it was stalled, now they're saying it's broken altogether. William Rhode takes a look at the global securitisation market to see what, if anything, can be done to restore its fortunes
Joe Lovrics
Quite what kind of structured credit market will emerge from the ashes of the financial crisis is a matter for intense debate. The head of structured credit sales at BNP Paribas gives his views on the drivers for the market's future
Fool's gold - How securitisation promised much ... but delivered little
The notion that securitisation as a technique is able to increase liquidity in the financial system by making marketable securities out of hitherto illiquid debt has been exposed as flawed, argues Anastasia Nesvetailova. It's not that financial…
Market graphic - The 2008-2010 credit cycle
Default rates are on the way up, but by how much? Ulf Erlandsson and Graham Rennison, quantitative analysts at Barclays Capital, use data on credit conditions to predict default rates and economic growth rates over the next two years of the cycle
New year, new hope for euro corporate bonds
Now that issuers have woken up to the unpalatable truth that wide spreads are here to stay - for the short term at least - a mini-rally in European bond issuance has ensued. Laurence Neville looks at how the corporate bond market is adjusting to its new…
Counting on the counterparty
High-profile banking failures have led to uncertainty over the ability of credit derivatives counterparties to honour their side of the trade. Contingent credit default swaps, or CCDS, are designed to mitigate this risk. But will plans for a central…
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UK pension funds look to hedge against falling inflation
UK pension funds are looking at inflation structured products in order to hedge the risk embedded in pension liabilities they pay at retirement, amid a falling inflation environment. Pension fund liabilities are adjusted for Limited Price Indexation (LPI…
Closer regulatory links needed, says US structured products industry
An overwhelming majority of members of the US structured products industry are calling for closer links with regulators in the wake of the financial crisis, a survey by the US Structured Products Association (SPA) has shown. The survey, which was…
Citi rings the changes in structured products reorg
Citi has announced a host of changes to its structured products business, including the appointment of Jean-Luc Bernardi as Emea head of structuring. Bernardi has developed and led the Emea Equity Derivatives Structuring Team since 2006 and will be…
Lyxor AM launches two new ETFs in Amsterdam
Lyxor Asset Management has listed two new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on Euronext Amsterdam. The funds have been built on versions of the reference index for the exchange: the Amsterdam Exchange Index (AEX), which tracks 23 of the stocks that trade on…
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