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Issue 131 - April 8th

• News Analysis

  • CDS

    • Exclusion zone

      Challenges remain for CDS clearing for the buy-side

      Market participants were last week asked by the New York Fed to broaden the remit of CDS central cou...

  • Indices

    • Volatility wanted

      Listless muni CDS market seeks more action

      The Markit MCDX index will celebrate its first birthday in the next few weeks. However, the index &a...

  • Operations

    • Judgement call

      Increased opacity for bank balance sheets?

      The FASB last week voted, as expected, to allow financial institutions to use "significant" judgemen...

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• News

  • CDS

    • Pay cuts hit structured credit the hardest

      Those working in the structured credit industry received the largest pay cut across the capital mark...

  • Distressed assets

    • Irish 'bad bank' to be established

      The Irish government has announced that it is to bring forward measures to address the issue of asse...

  • Operations

    • PPIP criteria to be viewed 'holistically'

      The US Treasury department has released additional guidance for potential investors in the securitie...

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• Job Swaps

  • • Rajendra recruited for new role

      The latest company and people moves

      Henderson Global Investors has appointed Ganesh Rajendra to the new role of head of advisory and res...

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• News Round-up

  • • Fair value accounting 'relaxed'

      A round-up of this week's structured credit news

      In response to comment letters and additional feedback received, the FASB last week revealed signifi...

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• Research Notes

  • Trading

    • Trading ideas: pressure bow

      Byron Douglass, senior research analyst at Credit Derivatives Research, looks at an outright short o...

      With unemployment looking to shoot past 10% in the US and commercial property values falling like a...

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