A round up of this week's structured credit news

BBA paper sets out credit crunch lessonsA worldwide targeted review of financial regulation will he...

The latest company and people moves

Bank expands securitisation unit nabCapital, the institutional banking and capital markets divisio...

Hans-Michael Schania, CDO management, Alex Tsymbal, US ABS and SIV management, and Alex Rothlin, ABS...

Q: When, how and why did your firm become involved in the structured credit markets?A: Aurelius Cap...

A round up of this week's structured credit news

Taiwanese CBO hit by Westways downgradeFitch Ratings has downgraded the ratings of the Class C bond...

ABS exposure on offer via bespoke correlation trades

A developing supply of ABS super-senior paper – a feature more commonly associated with the corpora...

Latest index figures show a further drop in returns, but not for all sub-strategies

Both gross and net monthly returns for August 2007 in the Palomar Structured Credit Hedge Fund (SC H...

The difference between the synthetic structured corporate credit market and the structured sub-prime...

Bespoke synthetics Along with all markets using the acronym "CDO", bespoke synthetics have come un...

Liquidation fears could be overstated

Downgrades of three US market value CDOs have renewed fears that the market may be swamped by liqui...

Investors urged to continuously vet their CDO managers

The long-predicted shakeout among CDO managers has begun. An increasing number of manager impairmen...

The latest company and people moves

Portfolio manager swap Patrick Janssen has joined Prudential M&G as a portfolio manager for th...

A round up of this week's structured credit news

CRE CDO-squared closed NIB Capital has closed Scute 2007-2, a US$1.3bn-equivalent CDO-squared back...

The latest company and people moves

Fund adds five SPQR Capital the fund manager set up by three former members of Deutsche Bank's str...

In this week's Provider Profile we talk to Morrison & Foerster about recent market volatilit...

Recent market volatility has brought structured credit into the mainstream headlines for the first...

Rating agencies set to explore ratings volatility

The traditional disclaimer for rating agencies is that they are only concerned with credit risk. Bu...

Issuance of sophisticated product expected through to 2008

Concerns over contagion risk from the US sub-prime crisis caused the Asia Pacific structured credit...

Central banks to play crucial role in shaping market's recovery

Investors and dealers are searching for new ways to restore confidence in the market. A renewed eff...