Feature/Foreign exchange
Discussing distressed debt - A roundtable
One area that looks poised to benefit from the turn in the credit cycle is distressed debt, with funds readying themselves to take advantage of any opportunities that may arise. Six thought leaders of the industry consider the outlook for distressed debt
Electronic platforms: Riding out the storm
Electronic platforms
The drive for automation
Trading technology
The final frontier
Single-dealer platforms
Doug Long
The business development head at structured finance software vendor Principia talks to Matthew Attwood about what it will take to restore investor appetite for structured products
Classifica italiana
Life & Pensions Rankings Italy 2008
Model behaviour
Sponsored Roundtable
Sourcing security
Markets
Out of the comfort zone
Operational stress
Seeking security
Cover story
Open to question
Private banking
Defaults domino
Synthetic credit
Taming nature with models
Catastrophe risk
Risk returns
Conference report
Pushed to the limit
Stress testing
Bank of Montreal profits from structured product trading
Good performance in the structured products trading business has helped Bank of Montreal's (BMO) Capital Markets Group to record growth for the third consecutive quarter, its latest financial reports have revealed.
UK eschews Basel II capital requirements
Daily news headlines
ProShares releases short and leveraged ETFs tracking commodities, Euro and Yen
ProFunds Group, manager of short and leveraged funds, has launched 12 exchange-traded funds (ETF) providing short or leveraged exposure to commodities, the Euro and the Yen. The ETFs tracking broad commodities and crude oil indexes, as well as the ETFs…
New ETF exposes investors to large-cap television index
Northern Trust has listed a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the Arca platform of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE.) The Nets (Northern Exchange traded shares) fund will track the performance of the FTSE CNBC Global 300 Index, which includes 300 stocks…
Op risk management at a crossroads
Editor's blog
BNP launches carry trade alternative
BNP Paribas has launched two new FX indexes, Galaxy Alpha and Alpha plus, which aim to offer an alternative to traditional carry trade strategies, which have underperformed over the past year given extreme volatility in FX and interest rate markets.
MAS review of structured products may lead to regulatory changes
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) may make changes to regulation governing the structured products industry it emerged yesterday during the country's parliamentary sitting. The MAS is undertaking a review of the regulatory regime for the…