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Law firm continues SF expansion
Reed Smith has added another partner to its structured finance practice with the appointment of Clau...
Job Swaps 16 April 2013 -
Sovereign ratings cap mulled
S&P is reviewing the methodology it applies when assigning structured finance ratings above...
News Round-up 15 April 2013 -
SIV fraud trial due next month
On 13 May the US District Court for the Southern District of New York is scheduled to start jury sel...
Job Swaps 12 April 2013 -
Debut SFIG conference announced
The Structured Finance Industry Group (SFIG) is set to hold its first annual industry conference in...
News Round-up 11 April 2013 -
APAC natural disasters tested ratings assumptions
Fitch reports that the major natural disasters that affected the Asia-Pacific region from 2010 to 20...
News Round-up 10 April 2013 -
Four join credit hedge fund
400 Capital Management has hired four new recruits to increase its investment and operations capabil...
Job Swaps 10 April 2013 -
Bank names structured products vet EMEA ceo
Nomura has named Jeremy Bennett as ceo for EMEA. Scott Bugie has also been made head of the financia...
Job Swaps 10 April 2013 -
Ratings differentiation
Call for improved assessment of derivatives risk
'Too big to fail' is emerging as a mainstream concern and with it come calls for the assessment of d...
News Analysis 10 April 2013 -
BoJ boost for CLOs, MBS
The stronger-than-expected quantitative easing announced last week by the Bank of Japan is likely to...
News Round-up 9 April 2013 -
'Negligible' set-off risk in Aussie SF
Moody's reports that the level of set-off risk in Australian RMBS, ABS and covered bond programmes i...
News Round-up 9 April 2013 -
Analytics platform unveiled
Venn Partners has launched Venn Risk Analytics (VeRA), a platform designed to provide an independent...
News Round-up 8 April 2013 -
Restructuring partners added in London
Schulte Roth & Zabel has recruited Peter Declercq and Sonya Van de Graaff to expand its Lond...
Job Swaps 8 April 2013 -
MBIA bolstered by court rulings
MBIA Inc on 2 April won an appeals court ruling, whereby Bank of America could be required to repurc...
Job Swaps 5 April 2013 -
SNS Bank results in
The final results for the SNS Bank CDS auction have been published. The auction was undertaken acros...
News Round-up 5 April 2013 -
Data integrity key to non-core divestments
A common trend is emerging in loan book audits executed on behalf of asset purchasers in Ireland and...
News Round-up 4 April 2013 -
ED progress 'ahead of schedule'
The ECB deadline for submitting loan-level data to the European DataWarehouse passed last week. Alth...
News Round-up 4 April 2013