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Issue 121 - January 28th

• News Analysis

  • Distressed assets

    • Clipped wings?

      Good bank/bad bank model inches closer

      The good bank/bad bank model, whereby the 'bad' assets of a financial institution are split off and...

  • CLOs

    • Natural fit

      Private equity/loan investors tipped as new CLO investor base

      Private equity firms and traditional loan investors are being tipped as a potentially significant ne...

  • Monolines

    • Definitely maybe

      Good news at last for the beleaguered monolines?

      Positive news could finally be on the cards for monolines and for those entities with exposure to th...

  • Structuring/Primary market

    • MAV on the road

      Rise in disclosure to offset increased complexity

      The transactions arising from the Montreal Accord - Master Asset Vehicle (MAV) I, II and I...

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• News

  • CDO

    • Bank writes CDO investments down to zero

      KBC has written down in full the value of its mezzanine CDO investments, retaining only the super-se...

  • CLOs

    • Obligor downgrade to test CLO influence on loans

      S&P's move to downgrade Ineos Group - the second-largest corporate obligor in Euro...

  • Indices

    • CDS indices to track performance of equity names

      S&P Index Services has launched its CDS US Indices offering, designed to track the performan...

  • Real Estate

    • Real estate derivatives exchange launches

      Details have emerged of a new real estate securities and derivatives exchange dubbed International R...

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• Provider Profile

  • Distressed assets

    • Bringing clarity to chaos

      Hansol Kim, founding partner of structured credit advisory firm Pine Lakes Capital, answers SCI's qu...

      Hansol Kim Q: How and when did Pine Lakes Capital become involved in the...

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• Job Swaps

  • • Firm hires, launches new distressed fund

      The latest company and people moves

      Firm hires, launches new distressed fund NewOak Capital has appointed David Bigelow as md of market...

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• News Round-up

  • • CIFG restructured and upgraded

      A round up of this week's structured credit news

      CIFG restructured and upgraded Moody's and S&P have upgraded the insurance financial streng...

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• Research Notes

  • Operations

    • The ECB raises the bar

      Angus Duncan, partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, suggests that the scope of the ECB's...

      On 20 January 2009 the European Central Bank announced two new requirements that ABS must satisfy if...

  • Trading

    • Trading ideas: return to sender

      Dave Klein, senior research analyst at Credit Derivatives Research, looks at a capital structure arb...

      Volatility in the credit and equity markets continues to create short-term opportunities to trade CD...

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