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BANKING

Primary debt poll 2007: Best by product

Funding officials at the largest 250 borrowers on the global debt capital markets were asked to rate their top three preferred banks in one of three categories: services to clients, major currency sectors, and by product type.

June 04, 2007

Benchmarking

Primary debt poll 2007: Service please

Banks are often inclined to monitor new issue league tables for evidence of their performance in fixed income. In Euromoney’s debt poll, though, those banks’ clients get to tell their side of the story. Quality and quantity, their views suggest, by no means always equate.

Jethro Wookey, June 04, 2007

BANKING

Hedge fund listings: Goldman keeps private exchange plan under wraps

"We absolutely cannot talk about it," was the repeated response of Goldman Sachs to market reports that it is setting up a mini private exchange to enable alternative investment firms to list without the hassles of regulatory oversight.

Helen Avery, June 04, 2007

BANKING

Turkey: No crisis of faith

Despite a long-running battle between the government and the army over Turkey’s religious and political future, foreign investors continue to flood the country with capital. That means plenty of business for foreign and domestic investment banks, and for a new wave of small but ambitious boutiques. Lawrence White reports.

Lawrence White, June 04, 2007

BANKING

Commodity markets: A drop in a puddle

Commodity markets used to be dominated by producers and users hedging their production and consumption. Now the mass arrival of investors has profoundly transformed these relatively small and illiquid markets. Peter Koh reports.

Peter Koh, June 04, 2007

BANKING

Asia market round up: Dark pools in Japan…

Credit Suisse and Instinet, the agency broker owned by Nomura Holdings, announced in May that they had agreed to link up their proprietary "dark liquidity pools" in Japan to enable their respective international clients to trade more efficiently in Japanese securities by executing larger trades with minimal market impact.

Chris Leahy, June 04, 2007

Opinion

The decline of the pure bond issue

The real action in debt capital markets has moved off the public stage.

June 04, 2007

CAPITAL MARKETS

Covenant-lite CLOs: From sub-prime to the ridiculous

The recent disruption in the US sub-prime mortgage market served as a warning to the CDO market of what happens when deals are backed by increasingly risky underlying assets. So why aren’t CLO managers – who are now buying single-B rated, covenant-lite loans in their droves – paying more attention? Louise Bowman reports.

Louise Bowman, June 04, 2007

CAPITAL MARKETS

Ukraine takes cautious steps down IPO road

There is a lot of talk in Kiev about companies undertaking IPOs. Every banker and company manager has contemplated the possibilities and many have attended conferences on the subject. Does Kiev need to brace itself for an onslaught of new IPOs as the market opens up or will the local legal infrastructure and stringent international standards stop all the talk in its tracks? Chloe Hayward reports from Kiev.

Chloe Hayward, June 04, 2007

CAPITAL MARKETS

Exchanges: Eurex finally gains foothold in US – but where’s the beef?

lnvestors question value of ISE deal.

Peter Koh, June 04, 2007

BANKING

SF market round up: Barclays loses Ford

Synapse Investment Management, which was founded in 2006 by Graeme Anderson and Mark Holman, has put itself firmly on the map with the recent hire of Rob Ford from Barclays Capital.

Louise Bowman, June 04, 2007

CAPITAL MARKETS

ABS CDOs: False dawn for ABS CDOs

ABS CDOs are back buying sub-prime ABS but all remains far from well in the asset class.

Louise Bowman, June 04, 2007

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