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Investment platform broadens
ClearVest has expanded the number of managers approved by its investment committee. The additions in...
Job Swaps 28 October 2014 -
Vendor acquired
Moody's has acquired Lewtan Technologies. The firm will become part of Moody's Analytics' structured...
Job Swaps 28 October 2014 -
QRM provides 'meaningful incentives'
The final QRM standards provide meaningful incentives for banks to maintain quality underwriting and...
News Round-up 27 October 2014 -
Spanish mixed pool purchased
Sankaty Advisors and Starwood Capital Group have acquired, through a controlled affiliate, a ...
News Round-up 27 October 2014 -
SCI Start the Week - 27 October
A look at the major activity in structured finance over the past seven days
PipelineA mix of transactions remained in the pipeline at the end of last week. The US$250m Navistar...
News 27 October 2014 -
CLOs face risk retention questions
The recently-finalised risk retention rules (SCI 22 October) will remove a level of uncertainty that...
News Round-up 24 October 2014 -
'London whale' assessment released
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the US Fed and the CFPB has released its summary report of...
News Round-up 24 October 2014 -
Short-biased credit fund launched
Cohanzick Management has launched the Nexus Fund, a long/short corporate credit strategy with a shor...
News Round-up 24 October 2014 -
'Minimal' risk for ECB
The ECB is taking only minimal credit risk with the ABSPP, according to Fitch. This assessment is ba...
News Round-up 24 October 2014 -
FIG reshuffled
Barclays' financial institutions group (FIG) has undergone a revamp, following the departure of form...
Job Swaps 23 October 2014 -
BGC bid commences
BGC Partners has gone ahead with its attempt to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of GFI...
Job Swaps 23 October 2014 -
Risk retention rules adopted
The FDIC, OCC, Fed, SEC and HUD have adopted final rules for credit risk retention under se...
News Round-up 22 October 2014 -
Rating restrictions
Sovereign caps impact investor options
Recent rating agency criteria changes have re-focused attention on the European peripheral ABS marke...
News Analysis 22 October 2014 -
Liquid credit fund rolled out
Alliance Bernstein has launched a new liquid credit mutual fund as part of a broadening of its US re...
News Round-up 21 October 2014 -
Consistency for impairment definition
Moody's has realigned its definition of impairment for structured finance securities in Japan with t...
News Round-up 21 October 2014 -
Agency beefs up
Scope Ratings has recruited six industry professionals to its team, less than two months after the a...
Job Swaps 21 October 2014