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April 2006

Main

Top stories

Money and mystery: Adia unveils its secrets

Debt markets

Why corporate hybrids are not all they’re dressed up to be

Western Europe

Jürgen Fitschen: Deutsche's developing domestic market strategy

Covered bonds

Why the sun hasn’t set on RMBS

The covered bond party gets bigger

Commodities

Commodities: Get smart or get washed up

CO2 market brings windfall profits for generators

Credit default swaps

What it takes to deal with success: How is the market dealing with the CDS backlog?

Credit research

Credit research poll 2006: Analysts see the upside of a downturn

Middle East

Project finance: Abu Dhabi taps its own funds

Qatar’s grand ambitions

Asia Pacific

China’s economic miracle moves inland

HSBC puts partnership into practice

Vietnam’s stock market: Buckle up and proceed with caution

Real estate

Will these structures stand the test of time?

FIG Watch

FIG Watch: Freddie Mac moves onto the offensive

Debt markets news & analysis

Bank Liquidity: Icelandics scramble for funds

Hybrid: Insurance and banks boost Q1 hybrid supply

US hybrids: Should we panic over ECAP?

Bond covenants: Credit investors look to be COC-sure

Debt round-up: WaMu ponders a covered bond

Debt round-up: Bank capital CMS market reopens

Debt round-up: SSA merry-go-round continues

Structured credit news

CDS futures: Exchange-traded contracts set to attract new client base

Real estate: Sainsbury CMBS offers food for thought to other troubled credits

Mortgage finance: Have sub prime lenders missed the boat?

RMBS: Issuers turn to MTN funding

Credit Default Swaps: More paper and dealers for preferred CDS

SC round-up: Monoline aspiration

Foreign exchange news

Recruitment: Mine the three months

Exchanges: Donohue says CME is leading the market

Algorithmic foreign exchange is more than just flavour of the month

FX round-up: UBS chooses Tradex

FX round-up: CME gets access to China

Fund management news

Wealth management: Where has all the vol gone?

Hedge funds and volatility: The ins and outs of ups and downs

Research: Fund managers get more choosy

Institutional investment: BBVA moves into hedge funds

FM round-up: Differing returns of hedge funds

FM round-up: Are hedge fund databases trustworthy...

FM round-up: ...or hedge fund indices?

Equity markets news

Exchanges: Nasdaq’s bid may cut costs, but not for LSE users

Growth markets: Sarbox refugees target Aim

European real estate-related ECM volumes set to increase

European equities: JPM queries the bullish mood

BNP Paribas to reshape its equity derivatives business in quest for growing hedge fund demand

Equity round-up: The month in numbers

Equity round-up: Focus on indices

Corporate finance news

Telecoms: Bigger but fewer deals in US

Leveraged finance: Wall Street poaches key staff from GE Capital

Buyouts: Public-to-private deals talked up in Europe

M&A: Increase in abnormal stock trading despite clampdown

M&A advisers: Smaller advisers win big on telecoms deal

CF round-up: Deutsche hires from Colony Capital

CF round-up: Rhodia hedges carbon emissions receipts

Asia news

Private equity: Investing into a perfect storm

Corporate finance: Asian M&A tides float Standard Chartered boat

Ichan's bit triggers outrage: Right country, wrong target

Asia round-up: Listless listing

Asia round-up: Reit rage

Latin America news

Borrower View: Brazil marches towards investment grade

Structured finance: Brakes on Brazil’s ABS market

Liability management: Mexico falls short of grand ambitions

Microfinance: Latin credits prove their worth

Brazil: Senators push to ease FX law

Electronic trading: MarketAxess plans new EM service

Latin America market round-up: Hugo Chávez watch

LATAM round-up: Deutsche reshuffles the pack

LATAM round-up: Bigger than they thought

EEMEA news

Small-scale lending: A Bold approach to microfinance

Credit ratings: Emerging in the emerging markets

Bank reorganization: UniCredit/HVB defines its model

Russia: Rosneft muddies the Yukos bankruptcy waters

Debt capital markets: NBAD takes convertible step

Kazakhstan: Specialist bank created as equity market booms

UAE: Emirates Holdings spins off subsidiaries

EEMA round-up: Romania

EEMA round-up: Georgia

Market leaders

Hybrid capital: all things to all men?

Banks and fund managers: Mind your backs!

Brazil’s uncertain future: On Antonio Palocci’s resignation

Banks count the cost of US regulation

Why Gulf markets have hit a wall

Getting a mental grip on Citigroup

Columns

The danger of early warnings

23 March: Deutsche Bank, HSBC, M&S's Stuart Rose, Sandy Weill

ECB Watch: Decision-makers fly by the seat of their pants

Against the Tide: The party’s over for US property

Inside Investment: Merrill and BlackRock - Rocking and reeling

Flipside - Asia: Vietnam takes to the capitalist road

Front End

NBK nearly employs Aussie embezzler

Investment bank giants hit for six

DTCC uncovers 'illegal' Cuban stock certificates

HK investors’ greed gets the best of them

SuperDerivatives introduces funky financial glossary to their website: Putting a gloss on the market

Off the Record

Quotes of the month

Guide to Bank Reform in Nigeria

Nigeria benefits from banking mergers and recapitalizations