Funds gun down dealers in Valentine's Day TABX massacre
Chaos surrounding the launch of ABX tranches turned 14 February into a Valentine’s Day massacre for dealers, but a field day for fast money

Mystery buyer bids for Deerfield
Mystery buyer bids for Deerfield

Merrill tops cash CDO league table
Merrill tops cash CDO league table

Settlement concerns delay US leveraged loan index launch
Settlement concerns delay US leveraged loan index launch

Sub-prime crunch hits ABS CDO warehouses
Sub-prime crunch hits ABS CDO warehouses

Traders postpone LevX roll
Traders postpone LevX roll

Liability issues complicate successor event solution
Liability issues complicate successor event solution

Liffe plan for listed CDS waiting on lawsuit
Liffe plan for listed CDS waiting on lawsuit

French manager plans correlation fund launch
Crédit Agricole Asset Management is hoping to launch its first fund to follow a pure credit correlation strategy in the next few weeks

Hybrid index tranches enjoying upsurge
Hybrid index tranches enjoying upsurge

Deutsche struggles to sign up DPC lines
Deutsche struggles to sign up DPC lines

BMA abandons CDO library
BMA abandons CDO library

Financial Stocks staffs up and rebrands
Cincinnati and New York-based investment manager Financial Stocks is rebranding itself as part of an expansion drive

Eurex signs up funds ahead of futures launch
Eurex signs up funds ahead of futures launch

Markit close to data product launch
Markit close to data product launch

Brevan Howard makes tranches push
Credit correlation has emerged as a key breadwinner for secretive hedge fund manager Brevan Howard, which is planning to float its master fund on the London

Aladdin staffs up in London
Aladdin staffs up in London

JP Morgan tops synthetic CDO ranking
JP Morgan has come top of Creditflux’s league table of synthetic CDO counterparties for the fifth year in a row

Dealers pull synthetic CDOs after DBRS bombshell
DBRS’s retreat from its unique approach to liquidity has forced several synthetic CDO dealers to cancel a number of large trades

ABX HE meltdown threatens tranches
The recent meltdown in North America’s home equity index ABX HE may severely impede the market’s ability to trade tranches of the index

Crowded trade backfires as curves overshoot
Crowded trade backfires as curves overshoot

Off-the-run tranches retain liquidity
Several off-the-run versions of CDX and iTraxx continue to trade with significant volumes, according to data compiled for Creditflux’s fourth quarter 2006 league tables

Lehman switches key staff from London
Lehman switches key staff from London

Dealers ponder European ABS docs
Dealers ponder European ABS docs

CDS liquidity fuels upsurge in CDOs-squared
CDS liquidity fuels upsurge in CDOs-squared