Americas
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Bayside Capital, a credit investment firm and affiliate of private equity house HIG Capital, has lost a managing director and a founding member of its European credit platform. -
ABN Amro was inundated with orders as it exploited a lack of subordinated supply by Yankee issuers to print its inaugural tier two offering in dollars.
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The FIG market cranked into life on Monday with Goldman Sachs’ €2.5bn dual tranche offering proving there is demand at both the long and short ends of the curve.
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HSBC has named Greg Pierce head of markets, Americas, as the previous head Didier Deschamps moves to a strategic role.
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New guidance from the US Internal Revenue Service has left many tax advisers baffled about how to treat over-the-counter options on baskets of securities dictated by models.
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Caribbean island nation Jamaica filed a bond shelf with the SEC for issuance of up to $3bn on Tuesday, taking it one step closer to a much anticipated deal that would be at least partly used to finance PetroCaribe loans owed to Venezuela.
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The US Federal Reserve has revised its rules on calculating how much extra capital big banks need to hold, so that banks which use more short term funding need bigger capital buffers.
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Industrial conglomerate Cosan looks set to provide the toughest test of investor appetite for Brazilian credit risk since Petrobras published its delayed 2014 financials results in April.
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Marking the five year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has put forward a wish list of “targeted amendments” for derivatives regulatory regimes.
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A strong compression in implied volatility globally across most asset classes has brought euro/dollar volatility to near dead calm, despite unanswered questions about what the results of Greece’s bail-out discussions will be.
