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Issue 11 - October 18th

  • Rumour has it...

      • Money, money, money

        It's which man's world?

        There are times when people's behaviour beggars belief! No, we are not talking about the increasin...

  • Data

  • News

      • Options on the rise

        No volatility, but there is more volume

        Despite falling volatility, the credit options market seems to be gaining some traction at last. In...

      • Insider trading tackled

        US trade association releases guidelines

        The US Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) has issued, as an exposure draft, a compreh...

  • Provider Profile

      • "The prettiest girl at the dance"

        Markit Trade Processing is the subject of this week's Provider Profile

        Communicator Inc, now part of Markit Group Limited since May '06, was founded by Leo Schlinkert, ex...

  • Job Swaps

  • News Round-up

      • Innovative Cortex closes

        A round up of this week's structured credit news

        Innovative Cortex closes Cortex, an unusual managed credit CPPI structure that focuses purely on i...

  • Research Notes

      • Trading ideas - lifts, cars and homes

        Tim Backshall chief credit derivatives strategist at Credit Derivatives Research suggests a negative...

        Basis trades are often seen as the bread and butter trades of many credit traders. The systemic ris...

      • Clarification:

        In last week's SCI (Issue 10, October 11 2006) we ran an article referring to "CDO2" as shorthand fo...


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