Debt news
Credit: Ratings agencies face shake-up
US issuance: Lafarge makes dollar debut
Market strategy: Lake moves over to HSBC
Debt market round-up: Full version of efunding launched
Debt market round-up: Axa pays for Winterthur
Structured finance News & Analysis
Hybrid SME CLOs: The opaque risks of lending to mom and pop businesses
CMBS: A grand month for CMBS
Credit derivatives: Squeeze is over for EM CDOs
Football Securitization: Arsenal kicks off public ticket receivables deals
SF market round-up: UBS boosts principal finance
SF market round-up: Irani leaves Whitehall
SF market round-up: Raynes calls his friends
Foreign exchange news
Retail trading: Saxo Bank finds value in growth from a retail niche
Trading protocols: More Fix in FX
REFCO bankruptcy: No Gain without pain for Refco
FX pedallers: L’Etape – c’était très dure
Volume data: Pump up the volume
FX market round-up: Buzz builds as FXMarketSpace announces early adopters
FX market round-up: TCV takes stake in FXall
Equity markets news
Equity analysis: Research revolution continues as roles keep changing
Traded options: ISE volume up 45% while NYSE cuts its prices
Exchange regulation: Nasdaq jumps through the last of its hoops
Trading fees: NYSE work if you can get it
Equity market round-up: The Month in Numbers
Equity market round-up: So much for hedging
Fund management news
Italy: Hedge funds not so healthy
Alternative investment: Henderson beefs up for US hedge fund market
New Philanthropy Capital: How to give it all away
Social enterprise funding: Fallow deposits may bear fruit
FM market round-up: No such thing as a bad press…
FM market round-up: Long/short equity strategies lose their shine
FM market round-up: EFG builds domestic UK business
FM market round-up: SEI signs up HSBC
FM market round-up: Kleinwort Benson rebrands
Asia news
HK telecommunications carrier PCCW: Wrong connections
Singapore’s first independent Reit: Creim-ing IT
Asia market round-up: Goldman Sachs - Check out but don’t leave
Asia market round-up: China not by the numbers
Latin America news
Hybrid capital: Latin issuance stays strong
Peru: García plans to go deep in soles
Interest-rate derivatives: New pricing model to boost Latin markets
Local currency bonds: CAF paves the way in bolivares
Colombia: Sovereign downgraded on revised methodology
Borrower view, Fabio Barbosa: Optimism rules for Latin CFOs
Latin America market round-up: Hugo Chávez watch
Lat Am market round-up: Argentina caps debt ownership
Lat Am market round-up: Santander redoubles its efforts
Lat Am market round-up: Mexico issues long-maturity debt
EEMEA news
Romania looks to privatization to develop capital markets
VTB kickstarts Russian RMBS market
Africa: Sovereigns look abroad
Dubai Financial buys into Malaysian bank
Bahrain: Regulator reports fund explosion
Hungary: OTP seeks Austrian acquisition
EEMEA market roud-up: Lebanon
EEMEA market round-up: Russia's rouble-linked Eurobond
EEMEA market round-up: Slovenia to adopt the euro
Market leaders
Financial markets and the information age
Regulator forces bonds into equity straitjacket
Argentina and Venezuela: A move too far
Equity investors can avoid future shock
African sovereigns should bring borrowing back home
Being all things to all men won’t do in EU markets regulation
Columns
ECB Watch: Sweden wins the euro World Cup!
Against the Tide: Get into the comfort zone
Inside Investment: We couldn’t recommend a purchase
TPG and Macquarie: Hang up, wrong numbers
Front End
LSE fired with enthusiasm for Potanin’s wannabes
She’s got a ticket to ride: Business Travel poll prize draw winner
Goldman Sachs: Covering all the bases
Dresdner has a Swan Lane clear-out
Bank Audi reaches the top of the world
