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Issue 125 - February 25th

  • News Analysis

    • CDS

      • Contingency plans

        CCDS trading platform prepares for launch

        A new trading platform - Novarum Global Trading - is being prepared, offering co...

      • Unsustainable trend

        Time for corporate CDS to price in sovereign risk?

        Sovereign CDS levels continue their widening trend, while corporate CDS are seemingly moving in the...

    • Correlation

      • Dispersion rules

        Investors favour single name CDS over top-down index positions

        Risk in CDX IG index tranches currently appears to be being driven by dispersion - or the...

    • Monolines

      • Setting the template

        Monoline credit events avoided through innovative reinsurance agreement

        MBIA's restructuring (see last week's issue) sparked concern about potential credit events being tri...

  • News

    • ABS

      • Agricultural ABS launched

        South African-based Gro Capital, a wholly owned subsidiary of AFGRI Operations Ltd, has completed a...

    • CLOs

      • Microfinance CLO completed

        SKS Microfinance, India's largest microfinance organisation, and ICICI Bank have completed a Rs2bn m...

    • Operations

  • Talking Point

    • Operations

      • Recursive boundaries in finance

        Stefan Wasilewski, ceo of Contingent Capital Corporation, discusses the need to model sustainability...

        RepriseBack to Alan Greenspan (see SCI issue 118): in my opinion, he wasn't at fault, just deceived....

  • Job Swaps

      • Global credit head departs

        The latest company and people moves

        RBS' global head of credit markets, Symon Drake-Brockman, has left the bank. According to a spokespe...

  • News Round-up

      • MBIA hit by downgrades

        A round up of this week's structured credit news

        MBIA has been downgraded by both Moody's and S&P, following its announcement that it has seg...

  • Research Notes

    • Trading

      • Trading ideas: plain and simple

        Byron Douglass, senior research analyst at Credit Derivatives Research, looks at an outright long on...

        Heading into the end of 2008, energy credit spreads widened along with the precipitous drop in crude...


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