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Benchmarking

Best borrowers 2007: Best insurance borrower: Swiss RE

The reinsurer’s sophisticated use of the ABS market is now matched by its use of the unsecured markets.

June 04, 2007

Opinion

Deutsche own goal overcome but UBS wins

The Champions’ League football final between Liverpool and AC Milan failed to live up to expectations but that evening London’s capital markets journalists were treated to an unexpected match between Deutsche Bank and UBS. Deutsche had sent out save-the-date invitations over a month before for a press party on the terrace at swanky restaurant Coq d’Argent.

Alex Chambers, June 04, 2007

Opinion

Quotes of the Month

"Algorithmic trading can be shit sometimes"

June 04, 2007

Opinion

Germany good to go

After years on the second tier of economic performance, Germany is ready for a return to the big time.

June 04, 2007

Foreign Exchange

Exchanges: FXMS struggles to gain traction

weeklyFiX's coverage of FXMS

June 04, 2007

Opinion

Milk of human kindness

Euromoney journalists are used to conversing on all manner of subjects related to financial matters but last month your reporter found himself engaged in a most surreal topic: lactation rooms at banks.

Sudip Roy, June 04, 2007

Benchmarking

Best borrowers 2007: Best CDO borrower: Babson Capital

Babson has leveraged its impressive franchise through a series of innovative deals over the past year.

June 04, 2007

Turkmenistan: Russia scores winner with gas

The latest chapter in the Great Game saga has been opened with a landmark agreement to build a gas pipeline linking Turkmenistan with Russia. The accord is widely seen as a blow to the interests of US and western Europe, which had hoped that Turkmen gas would be channelled through a western-backed trans-Caspian Sea pipeline that would bypass Russia.

Guy Norton, June 04, 2007

Hedge funds: Have investors got the measure of quant?

Quantitative hedge funds are increasing in number. Larger ones with the money to invest in research, technology and staff are becoming ever bigger while smaller quant funds struggle to keep up. Are quantitative strategies the sure-fire way to uncover and pin down alpha, as many investors are beginning to believe, or is human intervention in their implementation still all-too important? Helen Avery reports.

Helen Avery, June 04, 2007

Benchmarking

Best borrowers 2007: Best corporate borrower: Linde

Improving credit stories have been hard to come by in the investment-grade corporate market but the German group proved to be an outstanding exception.

June 04, 2007

Asia market round up: …Clean water in Asia

Tapping into the growing trend for green investing, in May CLSA Capital Partners launched Asia’s first dedicated water and waste management fund, Clean Water Asia.

Chris Leahy, June 04, 2007

BANKING

FX market round up: Jeffery quits Icap

It was announced on May 25 that Jack Jeffery had resigned as chief executive of electronic broking at Icap. The broker understandably moved swiftly to replace him, announcing that John Nixon would take over the role. Jeffery had overseen EBS’s integration into Icap after it was bought out from its mainly bank-consortium owners in June 2006. Jeffery joined EBS from Citi in February 2002 and he is widely credited with maintaining and then advancing EBS’s position as the market’s pre-eminent spot platform.

June 04, 2007

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