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The following charts show the top five advancers and decliners in terms of % moves in the loan, bond and credit default swap markets for the previous week.
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A pair of senior former Merrill Lynch staffers has launched an asset and liability management firm to advise defined benefit pension funds and insurance companies.
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JPMorgan has proposed a popular compromise to the question of deliverable obligations for credit-default swaps--one of several key issues to be resolved in the creation of standardized settlement mechanics.
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HSBC will this month price a synthetic collateralized debt obligation which references U.K. commercial mortgage-backed debt; a first for the firm and a structure rarely seen in Europe.
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Market participants and ISDA are preparing comment letters on two regulatory proposals that would give Canadian local governments jurisdiction over over-the-counter derivatives.
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About 60 credit dealers, managers and lawyers gathered at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto last week for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association's Credit Derivatives 2006 Conference.
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Domestic banks in Korea are jumping into synthetic collateralized debt obligation deals, looking for balance-sheet investments which offer attractive yields.
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JPMorgan Asset Management in Europe is gearing up to manage its first synthetic collateralized debt obligation since launching a CDO business in London in January.
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SG Corporate & Investment Banking is preparing to launch a commodity-linked note for the Hong Kong retail market--a first for the firm.
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A plan is in the works to offer an off-the-shelf protocol for settling single-name credit-default swaps and index trades by the end of the year.