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  • Underwriting standards slipping

    The OCC's latest annual survey of credit underwriting suggests that underwriting standards in the US...

    News Round-up    31 January 2014
  • Reg AB 2 vote scheduled

    The US SEC is to hold an open meeting on 5 February to discuss, among other topics, Regulation AB 2....

    News Round-up    31 January 2014
  • EU prop trading rules proposed

    The European Commission has proposed rules to prevent large banks from engaging in proprietary tradi...

    News Round-up    30 January 2014
  • CIR RFC issued

    Moody's has published a request for comment seeking feedback on proposed changes to its methodology...

    News Round-up    28 January 2014
  • PCAs to address commingling risk

    German securitisations are increasingly being structured with a PCA that is a collection account in...

    News Round-up    28 January 2014
  • SIX incorporates pre-LEIs

    SIX Financial Information is teaming up with Avox to provide pre-legal entity identifiers (pre-LEIs)...

    Job Swaps    28 January 2014
  • Asian ratings poised for positive performance

    S&P expects collateral performance and structural enhancement to underpin stable to marginal...

    News Round-up    28 January 2014
  • Turkish covered bonds bolstered

    The Turkish Capital Market Board has released a definitive communiqué that unifies and impr...

    News Round-up    28 January 2014
  • Law firm strengthens finance team

    Alexandra Margolis has joined Nixon Peabody's global finance team as a partner in New York. She join...

    Job Swaps    23 January 2014
  • RFC issued on sovereign approach

    Fitch has published a criteria exposure draft detailing how ratings of structured finance (SF) notes...

    News Round-up    23 January 2014
  • Banks rethink fixed income

    Banks are continuing to restructure their global fixed income businesses, scaling back or exiting ce...

    Job Swaps    22 January 2014
  • Country risk weighs on covered bonds

    Country risk remains the main influence on the performance of European covered bonds, according to S...

    News Round-up    21 January 2014
  • Infrastructure risk transfer unit debuts

    Mariner Investment Group has launched Mariner Infrastructure Investment Management (MIIM), a bank de...

    News Round-up    21 January 2014
  • Derivatives lawyer makes switch

    Sebastian Reger has joined Sackers as an associate director. The derivatives lawyer was previously a...

    Job Swaps    20 January 2014
  • Improved fundamentals highlighted

    The Fitch Fundamentals Index (FFI) remained in neutral territory but rose to +2 in 4Q13 from zero in...

    News Round-up    17 January 2014
  • SFR structuring innovation unveiled

    FeatherStone Investment Group says it has designed a new class of security that will allow qualified...

    News Round-up    16 January 2014