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Bank of Alexandria privatization process started.

The pros and cons of algorithmic trading

Until discrepancies between index auction prices and single-name CDS recovery rates can be ironed out, investors should sell recovery basis risk.

Russian companies are not renowned for adherence to international standards in corporate governance but several from the Russian Federation are looking to list their stock domestically and abroad. How are these companies dealing with the standards demanded by international investors? Kathryn Wells reports.

UK non-conforming mortgage lender Kensington Mortgages has shown how well the monoline, securitization-funded business model can work. Group treasurer Mark Wilten tells Louise Bowman why its risk profile has moved away from sub-prime lending and denies that the company is for sale, despite persistent rumours to the contrary.

Q&A with Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, the biggest foreign investor in Russia.

“The very first credit derivatives that I wrote, we didn’t even call them credit derivatives as the name hadn’t even been invented then!” says Andrew Donaldson, former deputy treasurer of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, who went on to work at JPMorgan before forming hedge fund Credaris last year as CEO.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon wants a clear, new structure for the bank, without personal fiefdoms and superstars. But what does this mean for one of its most important franchises – the structured credit business that JPMorgan once dominated – now in the hands of a new generation of managers? Alex Chambers reports.

After having been unseated as CEO of Deutsche Börse by hedge funds, Werner Seifert has concluded that the hectic race for alpha will destroy capitalism. Euromoney looks at Seifert’s passionate espousal of good old corporate values.

The authorities of Saudi Arabia have used the stock market to redistribute wealth, but in doing so they helped inflate a bubble. The inevitable crash has aroused some discontent. Rather then rushing to bail the market out, policymakers should use the sell-off as a spur to force out the manipulators and build a sounder infrastructure by forging ahead with privatization, licensing new investment banks and brokers and fostering institutional asset management. The pain of the sell-off will eventually pass, because Saudi Arabia is booming.

Euromoney collected data for its 2006 FX survey by polling named individuals at industrial and commercial corporations, financial institutions, institutional investors and state agencies.

UBS has confirmed long-standing rumours that it is to relocate its London foreign exchange (FX) trading operation back to Zurich. According to a spokesman at the bank, the move will affect 60 staff working in its spot, derivative and emerging market areas. The spokesman said that the relocation, which will not result in any redundancies, will also affect all front office support and IT staff. The move is scheduled to take place in August.