Debt market news and analysis
Investment grade bonds: Volatility returns
Credit indices: Markit consolidates credit derivative index firms
Covered bonds: Call for covered bond calm in face of delay
Debt market round up: Citi merges capital markets sales divisions
Structured finance news and analysis
CDOs: Super senior is super bad
Structured investment vehicles: Why European banks are shunning Mlec
Structured finance market round up: Ugly numbers
Structured finance market round up: Calyon’s new structured head
Structured finance market round up: Better late than never
Foreign exchange news
Banking: Can UniCredit be bigger than the sum of its parts?
Currency policy: Pressure builds on GCC dollar peg
Retail: Citi launches CitiFX Pro for private clients
Currency investment management: Overlay pioneer to list on LSE
Foreign exchange market round up: New blood for Saxo
Foreign exchange market round up: Deutsche takes Reuter
Foreign exchange market round up: Turley scrums down
Equity markets news
Trading: Turquoise starts to take shape
Structured note sellers struggle with Mifid
Exchanges: Plus adds to its services
Research: Trade Ideas catch on
Equity market round up: The month in numbers
Equity market round up: LSE and TSE joint venture
Alternative investments news
Investment management: More consolidation could encourage convergence
Hedge funds: Canada’s hedge funds beg attention
India: Sebi’s new rules encourage managers
Hedge funds and non-hedge fund institutional investors: Traditional buy side hobbled by lack of research
AI profile: Solent Capital steers a course through the crunch
Alternative investments market round up: 130:30 products to boost securities lending
Alternative investments market round up: Banks hit the acquisition trail
Alternative investments market round up: Bigger – but not too big – is better
Asia news
Thailand: Keeping it local keeps it real
Pakistan: Markets stay calm in a crisis
Hong Kong: Through train is delayed by signal failure
Japan: Ups and downs in bank sector M&A
Asia market round up: Nomura cuts back in America
Asia market round up: People moves
Latin America news
Latin American Banking: Banks prove resilient to global credit crunch
Brazil: BNDES fishes for funds
Foreign banks look for key in Guatemala
LatAm DCM: Take advantage of the liquidity
Argentina: Equity issuance looks set for takeoff
Chávez watch: Spanish king tells him to shut up
Latin America market round up: Goldman names new private banking chief
EEMEA news
Russia’s strength should insulate it from US fallout
Africa: Investec makes the case for African investments
Borrower view: Sabic’s CFO, Mutlaq Al Morished - Ingredients for a new world order
Investment banking: Medicap ventures into Africa’s frontier markets
Sino-Africa M&A: Chinese bring banks into their Africa strategy
Israel: Credit crisis hits Hapoalim
Infrastructure finance: MENA fund is on the road
Private equity: Mid Europa scores private equity hat-trick
Kazakhstan: Corporates throw down funding challenge
EEMEA market round up: Carlyle adds mass in Poland
EEMEA market round up: Alfa scores important first
EEMEA market round up: Standard Bank builds Africa debt team
Market leaders
Citi’s lesson from history
Monolines: Beyond protection
Emerging markets equities: Reasons to be bullish
Covered bond market: The importance of the three Rs
European SIVs: Beggar thy neighbour
Spain: Giving savings banks a good name
Dollar worries behind India’s boom time
Is it goodbye to the dollar?
Africa: Opening up the last frontier at last?
Columns
Abigail Hofman: A new breed is stalking the financial markets: it’s called an interim.
Against the tide: From villains to saviours: the big bank scam
Inside investment: Quant crunch
When will the hoarding stop?
Front End
Goldman gets down to brass tacks
Singing along with Public Bank
Meredith Whitney, CIBC World Markets analyst: Grappling with Citigroup
Hedge Royale: “No Mr Bond, I expect you to hedge…”
