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CSO investors can use 'hedges from leftfield' for longer exposure - QIS podcast
5 years ago
Quantitative investment strategies, an area typically more associated with equity markets, are opening up new possibilities for credit investors and are a growing part of trading activity -
Barclays hires another senior EM trader as Turkey continues to roil markets
5 years ago
Barclays has made an experienced hire to its EM credit trading team in London -
TD builds out European credit trading arm with key hire
5 years ago
The Canadian-based investment bank has strengthened its European credit trading business with a senior credit trading official -
Mediobanca hires experienced credit trader to build out loan franchise
5 years ago
Mediobanca has appointed an ex-Deutsche Bank senior credit trader as head of loan trading -
Turkey CDS rallies back inside 500bp on Qatar help, but curve remains inverted
5 years ago
Turkey’s sovereign five year credit default swap is back below 500bp today, following the financially embattled country’s recent spread blow-out -
BNP Paribas hires global credit strategy head
5 years ago
BNP Paribas has appointed a global head of credit strategy and desk analysts. -
Central clearer resource concentration puts systemic risk in spotlight
5 years ago
A joint study by regulators has revealed that default resources are increasingly concentrated in just two central counterparties -
BNP Paribas hires experienced structured credit trader in London
5 years ago
BNP Paribas has hired structured credit trading specialist James Moi to its business in London -
Steep climb: dealers and investors cross-examine merits of five-year CSOs
5 years ago
The market for bespoke tranches of credit synthetic obligations (CSOs) looks set for further year-on-year growth, but this could depend on expanding activity to longer tenors -
Alarm sounds on margin rules as small funds look to make early inroads
5 years ago
A fast-approaching 1 September regulatory deadline for phase three market participants to apply initial margin (IM) to derivatives trades looks set to pass without serious mishap, according to lawyers and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association -
Trimming hedge costs with a mark-to-market approach
Credit default risk is usually hedged with equity options. But Avino and Salvador believe that hedging using changes in the market value of credit exposures is a cost-effective alternative -
LCH expands into US with CDSClear as JP Morgan goes live
5 years ago
CDSClear, the Paris-based credit default swap clearing house of LCH, has expanded its reach into the US with JP Morgan becoming the first US bank to offer client clearing -
Strengthen CDS definitions to stop engineered defaults, say lawyers
6 years ago
The likelihood of stamping out manipulation in the credit default swaps market – namely the practice of staging credit events – is remote, say market sources -
CIFC moves into US high yield with unique long/short credit strategy
6 years ago
US high yield credit is hardly top of the agenda for fund managers at the moment, but CIFC Asset Management is taking a two-pronged approach to building out a new business line in this area -
Creditflux guide: index tranches
6 years ago
Bespokes are back, single name CDS remain popular and credit indices can be very liquid. So why, years after the crisis, are index tranches still in the doldrums? By Tom Davidson -
Parex's bond for loan swap traps CDS holders
7 years ago
French cement firm's move leaves hedge funds abandoning orphan -
Dealers are given more time to implement new OTC margining regime
7 years ago
CFTC postpones pursuing dealers who haven't got ready for new OTC margining rules -
Not liquid enough: Avaya's CDS deemed not worth an auction
7 years ago
Communications company's CDS isn't traded enough to warrant an auction -
Déjà vu as 2017 starts with CDS settlement head scratching
7 years ago
iHeart Media’s default gets increasingly complicated as auction date is contested -
BAML suggests going long via CDS in 2017
7 years ago
Credit default swaps are less technically driven than bonds at the five-year point, and this makes for a better long in credit, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch research -
French fries producer's CDS holders get their contracts thin-cut
7 years ago
Holders of credit default swap contracts on Conagra Brands saw their contracts get split earlier this month after the company’s french fries division Lamb Weston span out -
Societe Generale sees signs of stress in CDS markets
7 years ago
Research from French lender highlights weakening CDS while cash holds up -
China's new interdealer CDS market springs to life
7 years ago
Chinese dealers will now be able to transfer CDS contracts -
Near-term uncertainty causes Deutsche's CDS curve to invert
7 years ago
Deutsche Bank's credit default swap curve inverted on Monday for only second time in history as its one-year contracts cost more than its five-year contracts -
China opens the door to CDS trading
7 years ago
Chinese regulators give green light to CDS and credit-linked notes
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