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Issue 52 - August 22nd

  • Rumour has it...

      • Elementary errors

        You think you're smart...

        [In publishing these short sketches based upon the numerous cases in which my companion's singular g...

  • Data

  • News

      • Accounting solutions sought

        CDO issuers look to create new opportunities

        A number of CDO issuers are understood to be looking to utilise accounting treatment to create oppor...

      • Technology spend to increase

        Buy-side survey reveals future intentions while processing concerns return

        The first annual Structured Credit Investor technology benchmarking survey indicates that buy-side...

      • SIV-lites suffer

        Downgrades follow wind-down

        SIV-lites have become the latest structured credit vehicle to be impacted by market volatility in g...

      • Japanese REITS to rise?

        Latest CDO could presage further such issuance

        Aozora Bank has issued a to-date rare synthetic CDO that references Japanese real estate investment...

  • The Structured Credit Interview

      • All in the timing

        Christiane Elsenbach, a managing partner at Mayflower Finance, answers SCI's questions

        Q: When, how and why did you and your firm become involved in the structured credit markets? A: Ma...

  • Job Swaps

      • Bank makes senior hires

        The latest company and people moves

        Bank makes senior hiresDresdner Kleinwort is understood to have made two senior structured credit h...

  • News Round-up

      • More CPDO moves

        A round up of this week's structured credit news

        More CPDO moves Moody's announced yesterday that it was reviewing its rating on a CPDO as a result...

  • Research Notes

      • Trading ideas - positively golden

        John Hunt, research analyst at Credit Derivatives Research, looks at a positive basis trade on Goldm...

        Although Goldman Sachs does not seem to be perceived to have as much sub-prime exposure as some of...

      • Liquidity facilities as a credit enhancement tool?

        The impact of recent events in the Canadian ABCP market are examined by Domenico Picone and Priya Sh...

        The US sub-prime crisis has become a global event as the Canadian ABCP market is the next to suffer...


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