Structured finance news & analysis
CLOs: Sponsors look to cash in on credit opportunities
RMBS: HSBC seeks economies of scale
Credit derivatives: SG to launch investable CDS index
SF Market round-up: Fitch ups the ante in credit derivatives
Foreign exchange news
Centrally cleared FX: More players for FXMarketSpace
Market structure: Getting bigger all the time
Research: Lehman floats new Raft trading model
Argentina and Brazil prepare trade payments deal
FX market round-up: Dresdner Kleinwort names new head of FICC
FX market round-up: BoNY enhances website
Equity markets news
Trading systems: Instinet launches pan-European MTF to take on everyone
Exchange trading: Are floor traders drowning not waving?
Industry urged to fight equity derivatives trade confirmation backlog
Equity Market round-up: Question of the month . . . where have all the convertibles gone?
Equity Market round-up: The month in percentages
Alternative investments news
Hedge funds: Ritchie locks up liquidity
Private equity: Two take the air out of IPOs
Natural gas: Information forces gas prices the wrong way
Profile: Ambit digs more returns but less risk out of the US real estate market
AI Market round-up: Hedge funds give investors something to smile about
AI Market round-up: Consultant gives hedge funds something to smile about
Asia news
Hybrid capital: set to be big in Japan?
Vietnam: Hunting Asia’s last tiger
China equity: Chinese growth companies take Aim
Government debt: Japan switches on to e-trading
AP Market round-up: Asia’s rich just keep getting richer
Latin America news
Latin America: Survey reveals hedge fund dominance
Banker targets DR to become region’s financial centre
Chile: New law to boost SMEs
Borrower view: Petrobras returns with a bang
Latin America market round-up: Hugo Chávez watch
LA Market round-up: Bolivia signs $17 billion gas deal with Argentina
LA Market round-up: Latin real estate opportunities
EEMEA news
League tables: Deutsche ahead as Q4 promises strong volumes
Structured finance: Russian securitization makes a big leap
Oman: Future sales crucial to success of Blue City
Rouble convertibility crucial to Moscow’s funding plans
Private equity in Africa moves beyond development funding
EEMEA Market round-up: Egypt's Bank of Alexandria acquired
EEMEA Market round-up: Citigroup purchases stake in Turkey's largest privately owned bank
EEMEA Market round-up: UAE's Abu Dhabi Energy Company
Market leaders
IPO of China’s largest commercial bank looks set to be a success
UK infrastructure assets: Water works
Sale of Japan Post will create the world’s biggest bank
Overseas investments: India makes its presence felt
Buyers should beware in rush to Gulf private equity
Exchange merger not the main show in town – look backstage
Money talks, hedge fund employees walk?
Front End
Is Dresdner looking to a pole position?
Japan Post’s curve analysis: ‘Post Privatization - Total Surprise Bra’
Power-hungry computers look set to stop the world
Hazy outlook for the Lion City
Russian businessman purchases Midland Bank’s former headquarters
