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Issue 28 - February 28th

  • Rumour has it...

      • Some of the President's men

        A light touch means so much

        FADE IN: REPORTER talking softly from a relatively private phone in the newsroom. The voice of the...

  • Data

  • News

      • CPDOs being cranked up

        Floodgates set to open as CPDO issuance comes back on the agenda

        Bankers are now re-starting their CPDO-related activities in anticipation of the end of the rating...

      • Taste of CCOs to come

        New deal a sign of impending increase in commodities-based issuance

        Credit Suisse International has begun marketing a synthetic collateralised commodities obligation (...

      • Property boom?

        US, Asian and European initiatives continue to appear

        Notwithstanding the continued heavy pressure on the US sub-prime mortgage market, property remains a...

      • Pioneering reinsurance CDO launched

        Risk management vehicle for reinsurer expected to be the first of many

        Société Générale has launched the debut European synthetic CDO of insurance and reinsurance compani...

  • Talking Point

      • Operationally challenged

        Vanilla CDS backlogs may have diminished, but buy-side firms still have other processing concerns

        Buy-side firms continue to have concerns over credit derivatives processing, particularly with besp...

  • Job Swaps

      • McEneny joins Lloyds TSB

        The latest company and people moves

        McEneny joins Lloyds TSB Credit derivatives law specialist Greg McEneny has joined Lloyds TSB Corp...

  • News Round-up

      • Euromax VI on the road

        A round up of this week's structured credit news

        Euromax VI on the road Collineo Asset Management is bringing a new CDO of ABS that aims to take ad...

  • Research Notes

      • Trading ideas - diving in

        Dave Klein, research analyst at Credit Derivatives Research, looks at a negative basis trade on Devo...

        Our survival-based valuation framework – which implicitly judges how rich or cheap bonds are to the...

      • Credit default swaps - part 1

        This, the first of a two part primer by Michael Hampden-Turner, Panayiotis Teklos, Michael Sandigurs...

         By any benchmark, the recent growth of credit derivatives has been remarkable, develo...


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