Investor appetite for synthetics grows in Tokyo

Synthetic CDOs are attracting a rapidly growing number and range of Japanese structured credit inve...

A round up of this week's structured credit news

Moody's highlights LCDS template pros and cons Moody's has published its initial study of ISDA's J...

The latest company and people moves

Markit acquires Chasen Enterprises Markit Group continues its aggressive expansion with the acquisi...

Buy-side analytics provider CDO2 is the subject of this week's Provider Profile.

Fittingly for a firm that deals in the specifics of pricing, CDO2 was created with very specific ai...

Matthias Neugebauer and Cheiron Osako of Fitch Ratings look at understanding and hedging risks in sy...

A synthetic CDO tranche is subject to mark-to-market movements as underlying risk drivers move over...

Profiling Calypso

In this week's provider profile we talk to Umang Vithlani, sales executive responsible for credit d...

The latest people and company moves

Babson Capital hires structured credit official Jeffrey Prince has joined Babson Capital Managemen...

A round up of this week's structured credit news

Clutch of CDO rarities hit the market The extent of the flexibility of CDO technology was on full...

This week, Matthew Natcharian, md and head of Babson Capital Management's Structured Credit Team, an...

Matthew Natcharian Q: When, how and why did your firm become i...

A round up of this week's structured credit news

Bear brings new ABS CDO In a new twist on the normal CDOs of ABS, Bear Stearns has launched the EU...

Pierre Emmanuel Juilliard, head of Structured Finance, AXA IM, answers SCI's questions this week

Pierre Emmanuel Juilliard Q: When, how and why did your firm b...

A point of law

So, Barclays Capital is about to be up before the beak. For the uninitiated, that's London slang for...

Richard Hrvatin, md in Fitch Ratings' credit products group in New York, describes the inputs necess...

Richard Hrvatin, md in Fitch Ratings' credit products group in New York, describes the inputs neces...

The latest people and company moves

BGI expands credit research Asset manager Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has announced the appoint...

A round-up of all the week's structured credit news

Fitch launches stability scores Fitch Ratings has launched a set of stability scores for synthetic...

This week, David Littlewood, director and one of the founding partners of Cairn Capital, responds to...

David Littlewood Q: When, how and why did your firm become inv...