Latin America
Eloy Garcia, formerly of the IDB: A cool head in a crisis
Brazilian private banks: Fishers of rich men
Infrastructure finance: Brazil faces up to infrastructure gaps
Mexican structured finance rides out the global credit storm
Best-managed LATAM companies 2008: High standards are the exception
Venezuela: Fatherland, socialism or death… and finance
Credit markets news
Ratings: Yet more triple-A ratings are under threat
Leveraged finance: Leveraged finance goes from bad to worse
Ratings: Year of the downgrade
CMBS: Property values lean on CMBS
Indices: ERMBX adds more volatility
ABS: Spanish banks take ECB repo with both hands
Credit market round up: StanChart kills SIV
Credit market round up: Vinken retires
Credit markets round up: Where’s D’Albert?
Credit market round up: Palache off
Foreign exchange news
Reserve management: No cause to fear central banks
Trading platforms: FXall hooks into world of equities
Merrill Lynch FX: In and out at Merrill
FX Trading platforms: Icap speeds up EBS
Foreign exchange market round up: Changes at Deutsche
Foreign exchange market round up: Browning diversifies
Foreign exchange market round up: Saxo beefs up
Equity markets news
Clearing systems: Competition starts clearly
Germany: Mifid highlights size difference
Market forecasts: Buying times for equities
Regulation: FSA queries derivatives use
Equity market round up: Going up
Equity market round up: Going down
Alternative investments news
Hedge fund strategies: Credit funds continue to sink
Asset management: Horlick pushes alternatives
Private banking index funds: Private banking returns for everyone
Hedge fund seeding: When seeding makes sense
Latin America: European investors turn to LatAm private equity
AI profile: Pirates await chance to rehoist the Jolly Roger
Alternative investments round up: A good year for funds
Alternative investments round up: Julius Baer Americas to launch alternatives fund after IPO
Alternative investments round up: GSO nabs Brevan Howard’s Canaan
Alternative investments round up: Calpers goes niche in long-only
Latin America news
ABCP: Deutsche sells first Latin American conduit
Structured finance: Raiffeisen and UniCredit pioneer ABS
Argentina: MBS issuance felled by sub-prime contagion
Banking: How much is that client in the window?
Chávez watch: US motorists calmed
Latin America round up: Credit Suisse extends Andean reach
Latin America round up: Citi hires Yordan
EEMEA news
Structured finance: Raiffeisen and UniCredit pioneer ABS
Capital flows: A pan-African capital windfall
Credit ratings: Baltics and Balkans in Fitch firing line
Gulf banking: ADCB reports sub-prime losses
Lebanon: Politics puts last functioning sector at risk
FYROM: Banks attract second wave of FDI
EEMEA round up: Kazakhstan: bank M&A on the rise
EEMEA round up: Qatar: ICBC gains QFC licence
EEMEA round up: Evolvence Capital launches Reit
Market leaders
Japanese megabanks: No illusions, no surprises?
Put Northern Rock into run-off
Regulation: Good cop, bad cop
China’s banks set for a rougher ride
Latin American banks: Why a slowdown won’t lead to a meltdown
Blind faith in Las Vegas: American Securitization Forum
Private placements: Where there’s a will, there’s a way