Debt markets news & analysis
Covered bonds: Wachovia is the next US issuer
Issuers: Long dollars back on line
US hybrids: NAIC’s new rules lift market
Profile: Has ABN fixed sales and trading?
FIG Watch: RBS takes the RMBS market by storm
Debt market round-up: Pascucci resigns from Deutsche role
Debt market round-up: JPMorgan Cazenove quickly replaces Sismey
Structured finance news & analysis
Real estate CDOs: One size fits all?
Credit derivatives: BBA and Isda report explosive derivative growth
ABS: Maxed-out on credit cards
Pub securitization: Real estate pushes pubs through single-A ceiling
SF market round-up: S&P knocks Italian regionals
SF market round-up: Booming Q4, at least for Europe
Foreign exchange news
Political elections have little or no impact on today's financial markets
Algorithmic trading: Barclays adds algo bite to Barx
Appointments: New global head of FX for Merrill Lynch
Exchange-traded options: CME appoints new head of foreign exchange
Appointments: Zar Amrolia returns to Deutsche Bank as global head of forex
FX market round-up: Kemp resigns from FXC
FX market round-up: FXMarketSpace continues to hire
FX market round-up: Understatement of the year award
Equity markets news
Telecoms: T3 Telstra sale troubled by tiffs
AIM: Aiming higher or staying put?
MIFID: Price benchmarking not suitable for structured derivatives, says FOA
Equity market round-up: The month in numbers
Equity market round-up: Life is tough for EM equities…
Equity market round-up: …and for NYSE specialists
Alternative investments news
Short selling: NYSE stocks: 25% sold short
Investor protection: Why bother rating hedge funds?
Credit arbitrage: Probe firms proffer arb profits to hedge funds
Kilkenny Capital Management: Biomedical long/short fund profits from US healthcare mispricings
AI market round-up: The evolution of Man
AI market round-up: RAB buys Northwest
AI market round-up: Caymans hit 8,000 mark
Asia news
SGX FTSE Xinhua China index: Control of the futures
Japan: TSE sued over Mizuho keystroke blunder
Private equity: Darby to launch $1 billion global emerging markets fund
Asia Pacific market round-up: UBS heads back to school
Latin America news
Banking: Santander goes global
Venture capital: Chilean reforms fail the entrepreneur test
Catastrophe bonds: Mexico issues to insure against earthquakes
Argentina: Mortgage reform stymied by short-term capital
Borrower view, Juan Fernández: Grupo TMM's back from the depths
Latin America market round-up: Hugo Chávez watch
LA market round-up: Sovereigns strengthen debt profiles
LA market round-up: Barcap opens in Mexico
EEMEA news
Qatar: Al Rayyan Bank opens its doors
Central Europe: Big institutions stay away from CEE bourses
Kuwait: Investment Dar leans on sukuk
Lebanon: Salame upbeat on the country’s future
EEMEA market round-up: Polish firm raises the largest fund ever for central and eastern Europe
EEMEA market round-up: Three Ukrainian banks acquired by Czech financial group
EEMEA market round-up: United Arab Emirates
EEMEA news: Editor's note
Market leaders
The clash of the egos: LSE wooing set to continue
Tale of two hedge funds: Short & caught and long & wrong
Hedge fund raters’ rating is only ‘fair’ – they could do better
Credit research: Do your homework
Banking: More to come in Italian consolidation
Debt syndication: Risk takers no longer required
Emerging market debt: The search for alpha
Columns
Economic growth: Europe closes the productivity gap
ECB Watch: Are the markets reading Trichet right?
Inside Investment: Debt cubed
Worsening risk, new investors and the absent canary
Front End
Beemer mishaps fail to dent IMF conference
First the chukkas, then the rockers
Investment bankers: This is my island in the sun
Unicorn Investment Bank: Superheroes take the credit
