Donald Uderitz, chairman and chief investment officer of Vanquish Capital Group, answers SCI's quest...

 Donald Uderitz Q: When, how and why did your fir...

The proposed separation of structured finance ratings from corporate bond ratings is discussed by Ra...

G7 Finance Ministers and central bankers issued a statement on 11 April recommending - among other...

A round up of this week's structured credit news

Moody's adds SF rating enhancements ...Moody's is introducing two supplemental measures to its stru...

The latest company and people moves

Mitsubishi buys into Aladdin Mitsubishi Corporation has agreed to purchase 19.5% of structured cre...

CDPCs bring some liquidity to the market

A new dynamic has emerged in the synthetic CDO sector, whereby arrangers are pre-placing super-senio...

Uncertainty grows over how other agencies will approach CSOs

The structured credit market has, on the whole, welcomed Fitch's refinement of its corporate CDO me...

CDO manager consolidation gathers pace

The recent integration of Omicron Investment Management with Aurelius Capital highlights the diffic...

A round up of this week's structured credit news

BoE joins rating agency debate ...The Bank of England has published its Financial Stability Report,...

Russian reform hints at CDS potential

Given its burgeoning corporate bond market, credit derivatives have huge potential in Russia, yet C...

The latest company and people moves

BlueMountain hires Bryant BlueMountain Capital Management has hired Jay Bryant as an md in its inv...

A round up of this week's structured credit news

CDO recovery assumptions revisedS&P has revised its recovery-upon-default assumptions for CDO s...

Fitch releases refined CDO methodology

Fitch has released its much-anticipated revised criteria for rating corporate CDOs (see SCI issues...

The latest company and people moves

Babson hires technology cioBabson Capital has appointed Praveen Kumar as chief information officer....

Lessons to be learnt from write-down post-mortem

Analysts are hailing the UBS shareholder report on its sub-prime related write-downs as a must-read...

With TRUPs CDOs having been more negatively impacted than CLOs by the market's liquidity and risk re...

Trust preferred (TRUP) CDOs are backed by what is essentially preferred stock, surplus notes, or su...

Systemic risk diminishes, but spill-over effect is possible

Dealers report that the European index markets have begun to show signs of settling down over the p...