Credit markets news
Securitization regulation: EU takes a hammer to ABS
Covered bonds: There’s no place like home
Monoline ratings: An unhappy dying breed
HBOS detractors jump the gun
People: Citi streamlines capital markets – again
Uncovering US covered bonds
Structured credit poll 2008: Credit derivatives - Structured credit deep in restructuring mode
CLOs: Closed market poses threat to managers
Credit markets round up: UK mortgage market - Crosby talks tough
Credit markets round up: Stanley’s credit head joins Markit
Foreign exchange news
FX research: Beware the central bankers
Trading models: New model army on the march
Icap: FX helps drive growth at Icap
FXCM: Retail sales on a roll
FX market round up: StanChart relaunches Shariah solution
FX market round up: Barclays boosts Asian management
FX market round up: In and out at Tudor
FX market round up: Calyon gets new head of FX trading
Equity markets news
Multilateral trading facilities: Turquoise dives in at dark end
Structured products: New guidelines for issuers
Bank rights issues: A right mess of issues
Equity market round up: Going up
Equity market round up: Going down
Alternative investments news
Hedge funds seek out Middle East alpha
Macro funds: Experience pays off
Naked shorting: Funds up in arms about short-selling ban
Portfolio valuations: Auditors off the hook
AI market round up: Bank financing - TPG no longer in B&B bid
AI market round up: HFs’ fixed-income trading slows
AI market round up: People moves
Champagne index - Bubbly returns
Asia news
Hong Kong equities: Ho gets SJM to the table
Indian telecoms: No brotherly love as RelCom deal folds
Japanese banking: Shinsei buys GE’s consumer finance unit
Pakistani privatization: State sell-offs should perk up equity market
Asian market round up: China tightens FDI rules
Asian market round up: Singapore opens new derivatives exchange
Latin America news
Development banking: Chávez leads rival to IDB
Project finance: Record financing for Peruvian LNG project
Ecuadorean debt: President threatens to put life before debt
Mexican banking: Banorte works towards full enchilada offering
Chávez watch: Caribbean gets cheap oil
Latin American market round up: Peruvian finance minister resigns
Latin American market round up: Deutsche poaches Parnes
EEMEA news
Kazakh banking: RZB returns to Kazakhstan
Renaissance offers structured equity exposure
Baltic banking: Baltics blow cold for Swedbank
Investment banking: UBS puts its best foot forward in the Gulf
Stock exchanges: Push for junior markets in Middle East
Cyprus: Communists ask Russia for financial advice
Investment banking: Troika commits to its markets
EEMEA market round up: Erste invests in Russia
EEMEA market round up: Halbis boosts EM team
EEMEA market round up: Mubadala partners with GE
Market leaders
Merrill Lynch: Thain's watershed moment
Crunch time for Spanish banks
HBOS rights issue: Nailing the blame game
Inflation-linked bonds: Making sense in emerging markets
Hedge funds: Would you have one of these in the house?
Corporate governance: No family is an island
Fannie & Freddie: Shouting ‘fire’ in a packed auditorium
Infrastructure funding: Experience counts on the road to Farac II
Front End
Conferences: Hard rockers provide light relief
Credit crunch: Oh what a wicked web we weave…
Daiwa SMBC: You’re no longer hired
Top 10 financial definitions that are funnier since the credit crunch
Bank shareholders prayer: In God we trust; all others pay cash
Ha! Royal Bank of Shambles: View from the Hackney omnibus
Saxo Bank: Why be good if you can be lucky?
