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Special focus: Follow the buildup to today's subprime and leveraged loan problems. Special focus: Sub-prime and leveraged loans
Published August 2008 euromoney.com
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Any theoretical discussion of a CDS counterparty default has to include the monoline guarantors.
Euromoney August 2008
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Euromoney’s annual structured credit poll reveals that JPMorgan is leading a much reduced pack.
Euromoney August 2008
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How have the constituent parts of the interest rate derivatives market held up through the worst financial crisis in a generation? Total Derivatives provides a case-by-case study.
Euromoney August 2008
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While the build-up of a portfolio of diversified assets overseas is one key pillar of the government’s economic strategy, another is a commitment to a broad range of service-based industries domestically.
Euromoney August 2008
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Car manufacturers and their captive finance units might think themselves removed from much of the world’s financial turmoil. But are rapidly expanding emerging markets enough to keep the gloom at bay? Jethro Wookey reports.
Euromoney August 2008
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It has always been a big contributor to investment banking profitability – and with credit derivatives in turmoil, the market’s importance is rising again. Total Derivatives, in association with Euromoney, polled the market to find out who is the best of breed in rates. Ronan O’Neill spoke to senior ra
Euromoney August 2008
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It’s a year since the credit crunch began and still there is no end in sight to the bloodletting. Alex Chambers looks at the prospects for bankers facing this unprecedented downturn as traditional alternative employment avenues, such as hedge funds, struggle to pick up the slack.
Euromoney August 2008
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Regulators have put huge pressure on the CDS market to address counterparty risk. But in doing so they might be creating a bandwagon that exacerbates rather than solves the problem. Louise Bowman reports.
Euromoney August 2008
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The last of the traditional monoline insurance companies to maintain their triple-A rating are facing a downgrade.
Euromoney August 2008
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Do you find aspects of the credit crunch confusing? Fear not, all will be explained by US law firm Patton Boggs. In a recent presentation in London hosted by the European Securitization Forum, US attorney Talcott J Franklin from the Washington DC-based law firm was charged with explaining the implications fo
Euromoney August 2008
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Governments should give investors what they need and issue inflation-linked bonds.
Euromoney August 2008
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Recessionary headwinds impair credit outlook for US banks; banks in Canada and Latin America are so far relatively unscathed, by Jeanne Del Casino, senior credit officer – Latin American Banks, Moody's Investor Services
Published August 2008 euromoney.com
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Published July 2008 euromoney.com
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Crises change markets. The Savings & Loans crisis pushed US banks into securitising mortgages; the European ERM crisis ultimately gave birth to the euro; the Asian debt crisis shifted the policy debate in the emerging markets and eventually strengthened them. These are some examples of past experience. What
Published July 2008 euromoney.com
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Euromoney July 2008
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Dealers crushed by shift in interest rate expectations as swap yield curves invert.
Euromoney July 2008
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'The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable' is an excellent read, but anyone who talks about the credit crunch in these terms is not being intellectually honest. ...It is an inconvenient truth that extreme events are more common than the hawkers of MBS backed by sub-prime slime care to admit
Euromoney July 2008
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Changes in domestic market conditions are making borrowing abroad the most attractive option for Chilean banks and corporates.
Euromoney July 2008
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Euromoney July 2008
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Euromoney July 2008
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Tight spreads and a lack of differentiation between issuers are things of the past in the covered bond markets. But perhaps this is more “normal” than the bull market situation.
Euromoney July 2008
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Euromoney July 2008
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As the structured finance market struggles to reinvent itself, the orgy of recrimination among constituents is intensifying.
Euromoney July 2008
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The belief that Libor is an actual rate at which banks lend substantial money to one another is a façade that the credit crunch has torn down with a vengeance.
Euromoney July 2008
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Appetite for distressed ABS is not nearly sufficient to mop up supply.
Euromoney July 2008
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The restructuring of Cheyne’s SIV could provide a blueprint for other stricken vehicles; Blackrock in the frame to manage StanChart’s SIV.
Euromoney July 2008
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Voracious risk appetite propelled Goldman’s earnings in the good times and induced rivals to follow suit. Only when the crash came did they learn, too late, how good a risk manager Goldman is. By managing itself well and avoiding the worst hits, while rivals are clearing up their own mess, Goldman has enha
Euromoney July 2008
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The prospect of a regulated credit rating agency sector in Europe will move one step closer tomorrow (July 8) when a proposal is due to be submitted by the Commission to Ecofin outlining plans for the agencies’ regulation and oversight.
Published July 2008 euromoney.com
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While some continue to debate whether the knife is still falling, others have decided that the distressed credit markets already offer an attractive investment opportunity.
Euromoney June 2008