Debt markets news & analysis
Covered bonds: WaMu ponders pioneering role
BNPP recasts its credit analysis
Hybrids: NAIC resolution some way off
Debt round up: ResCap pays back domestic sub debt early
Debt round up: Lehman syndicate shift
Structured credit news
Asset-backed securities: Funds list to ease first-loss sales
Real estate: Prepayments require patience
Public sector securitization: Esoteric risks tax investor appetite
Valuation models: The value of number crunching
SC round up: German TSI boosted by Dresdner deal
SC round up: Saudi Arabia pioneers regional RMBS
People & markets: All change in European ABS
Foreign exchange news
Brokers: Icap pulls off coup with EBS purchase
Electronic platforms: Single portals of discovery predicted for multiple assets
Trading volumes surging despite lack of volatility
FX round up: Deutsche poised to enter retail space with new platform
Fund management news
Asset Management: Martin Currie proves sizeist critics wrong
Cross-border real estate investment set to grow
UK: New solutions for pension fund shortfalls
Muni bond arbitrage: Getting high yields out of triple A paper
FM round up: Scandalous... Has anyone seen…100 diamonds, including a 22-carat gem?
FM round up: Kirk Wright "goes underground" after allegedly robbing American football players
FM round up: Refco’s photo collection?
Corporate finance news
Equity-linked: Converts make a comeback
LBOs: JPM and Lehman Brothers Dunkin’ into royalty pool to fund buyout
Equity-linked faces competition from corporate hybrids
Leveraged finance: Firms fend off pressure to releverage – for now
CF round up: Morgan Stanley makes key hire to bolster M&A
CF round up: Syndicated loans cheaper, more plentiful than ever
Asia news
India: Biggest bank essays loan securitization
Insider trading case sends out global ripples
Asia round up: No bull about China’s Bear
Asia round up: Philippine spreads inside US ones
High-yield debt: Missing the wood and the trees
EEMEA news
Turkey: Turkey’s central bank back on course
Egyptian banking: Moving in the right direction
Russia: It’s now, or 2008, for Svyazinvest
Gulf markets: No need to panic, warns governor
Q&A: Browder stands defiant
EEMEA round up: Azerbaijan
EEMEA round up: CEE index
EEMEA round up: Iran downgraded
Latin America news
Argentina: Banks set for broader funding opportunities
Debt capital markets: Morgan Stanley makes big comeback
LATAM Debt capital markets: Merrill’s not so steady ship
Borrower view: Colombia seeks liquid potential
Refco ramifications: A crisis with a twist
Latin America market round up: Hugo Chávez watch
LA round up: Guillermo Nielsen: moving on
LA round up: Goldman Sachs: change at the top
LA round up: IDB calls for more financial instruments
Market leaders
The next big thing in emerging markets?
Why CDS investors need to lock in recovery rates now
How you value call protection – and why you should care
Russian listing rules look too onerous
What Turkey can teach the EU
Goldman takes a beating, but is still the one to beat
Columns
1 May: Lehman's Board; Jeremy Isaacs: BoA; Studzinski; Rainer Stephan
Against the Tide: Look beyond politics for Europe’s firepower
Inside Investment: Alpha hunters vs beta grazers
ECB Watch: Does normalization imply a ‘refi’ rate of 4% next year?
Front End
Saudi growth: (Chuck) Prince meets Prince (Alwaleed bin Talal) and says sorry
Estefan club go wild on Wall Street
Deutsche Bank and the FSA: A good, clean fight?
World Cup kicks off early in DCM
