Issue 76 - February 20th
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Data
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CDR Liquid Index data as at 18 February 2008
Source: Credit Derivatives Research
Index Values &a...
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News
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Succession questioned
Monoline division sparks credit definition concerns
Suggestions that some monolines may split their businesses into separate municipal and structured f...
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Mixed bag
Some SIV restructurings could come unstuck
Income note investors in HSBC's Cullinan Finance SIV last week formally accepted its exchange offer...
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Secondary market stalls
European catch-22 spreads
The catch-22 situation that characterised the European primary securitisation market coming into Ja...
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CLO doldrums
Europe still becalmed, but US shows glimmer of potential
The European CLO primary market remains paralysed, with no pricing activity since December – despit...
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Talking Point
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The devil in derivatives processing
Full-cycle exposure management is discussed by Frank Reiss, director and head of derivatives product...
The OTC derivatives market continues its meteoric surge. Bank for International Settlements statist...
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The Structured Credit Interview
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Income-driven alpha
Mark Cernicky, enhanced credit portfolio manager at Aviva Capital Management Alternative Strategies,...
Mark Cernicky Q: When, how and why did your firm become involv...
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Job Swaps
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CS revelation and suspensions rekindle fears
The latest company and people moves
CS revelation and suspensions rekindle fears On Tuesday Credit Suisse revealed a 58% increase in w...
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News Round-up
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Quebecor fixes
A round up of this week's structured credit news
Quebecor fixes Markit and Creditex, in partnership with 13 major credit derivative dealers, yester...
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Research Notes
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An application of CDS-implied ratings to synthetic CDOs
How Moody's CDS-implied ratings for corporate reference names, together with an analytic CDO ratings...
CDS have revolutionised credit investing and risk management. According to the Bank for Internation...
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Trading ideas: investment allows recovery
John Hunt, senior research analyst at Credit Derivatives Research, looks at a default-neutral basis ...
Idearc's bonds are trading cheap to CDS-implied value, and we seek to take advantage of that throug...
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