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

Lease-backed flows spur CDO activity
Lease-backed flows spur CDO activity

Dealers embrace tranche fixings
Dealers embrace tranche fixings

Bank consortium kick-starts CDPC
Bank consortium kick-starts CDPC

Dresdner job cut followed correlation hit
Sources say that a recent exodus of credit derivative staff from Dresdner Kleinwort follow losses in the bank’s correlation book late last year

Manager opens long-short credit fund
Manager opens long-short credit fund

Dealers staff up in ABX correlation
Dealers staff up in ABX correlation

Morgan Stanley prevails on European loan docs
Morgan Stanley, together with supporters of its view, appears to have won out in a longstanding battle over European loan credit derivatives

New capital flows into credit hedge funds
New capital flows into credit hedge funds

Traders bet on CPDO March rollover impact
A broad range of firms are positioning themselves to take advantage of what they see as forced trading by CPDOs at March’s roll

Dealer retreat leads to index liquidity concentration
Dealer retreat leads to index liquidity concentration