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Generali seeks high yield analysts in Milan as credit research head builds team
5 years ago
Generali Investments’ head of global credit research has relocated within the firm from Paris to Milan and is seeking hires to build a team in the Italian city -
European sub-financials shake-off Santander AT1 shock, outperforming senior fins and corps
5 years ago
Santander’s decision yesterday not to call a €1.5 billion additional tier one (AT1) bond shocked investors in the asset class. But while this may have been expected to bring a wider reverberation of pain, investors and strategists have noted a firming up of the European financial bond sector today -
HSBC boosts single name CDS and index trading with experienced hire
5 years ago
HSBC has added a former index trading head to its credit team in London -
Deutsche plots single name CDS return and index push with two senior hires
5 years ago
Deutsche Bank has made two senior credit trading hires to its London office, with sources saying these portend a revival of its CDS market-making business -
So lacking in transparency are CDS that they cloak themselves with standardised docs and definitions
5 years ago
A glance through mainstream media reports confirms that credit default swaps are as sinful as the media thinks they are, says our columnist Welshcake -
CDS lives to bring more fights as it steers past Ziggo and Sears
5 years ago
Credit default swaps have navigated two big tests of their rules, holding up to scrutiny on Ziggo Bond Finance (ZBF) and Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp (SRAC), despite warnings they could weaken the product -
CDS sell-off brings profit-taking opportunity for basis trade players
5 years ago
Profit-taking on basis trades between CDS and cash bonds has begun, with the strong run for credit markets since the start of the year having hit a bump yesterday -
Isda seeks fallback spread vendor for derivatives
5 years ago
The International Swaps & Derivatives Association is seeking an independent service provider to calculate and publish adjustments to fallbacks it will use in interest rate benchmarks for its Isda definitions -
Central counterparties need to improve after Nasdaq Clearing member default, says Isda
5 years ago
Derivative central counterparties (CCPs) must look to make a number of improvements to risk practices, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has said in a paper that follows a clearing member default at Nasdaq Clearing in September -
Ziggo CDS protection buyers get a lift as DC votes for successor
5 years ago
Holders of credit default swap protection on Ziggo Bond Finance have received a boost, with the EMEA Determinations Committee ruling that contracts structured under the 2014 Isda credit derivative definitions have a successor – dispelling fears they would be orphaned. -
Dealers gear up to settle Sears CDS and rule on Ziggo successor
5 years ago
The long wait to settle the final price of Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp credit default swaps will end today with a credit event auction, while investors could also learn whether there is successor to contracts referencing deregistered Ziggo Bond Finance -
Credit spread improvement is calm before the storm, warn strategists
5 years ago
European and US credit markets have begun 2019 with a more buoyant tone than they ended 2018, but strategists warn that bearish factors still outweigh and suggest the overall direction of spreads this year is likely to be wider -
Europe/US relative value play opens up in battle of the bears
5 years ago
All indications point to 2019 being a tough slog for credit on both sides of the Atlantic, but a consensus is forming that US high yield has the most to worry about. That, say strategists, could present opportunities for those looking to trade one region against the other -
London CCPs to be given 12-month EU equivalence in no-deal Brexit scenario
5 years ago
The European Commission will continue to grant equivalence to UK central clearing counterparties for 12 months in the case of a “no deal” Brexit, it has been variously reported -
Vue CDS reels on loan no-show, as CLO managers hold front row seats
5 years ago
Vue International is among the biggest movers in credit default swap trading today after the cinema operator pulled an £833 million refinancing and acquisiton financing -
Creditex obtains CFTC swap execution facility exemption
5 years ago
Creditex, the electronic brokerage for corporate bonds and credit default swaps, has been granted an exemption from a requirement to register with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a swap execution facility -
Astaldi CDS auction sets 30.875 final price as physical settlement boosts recovery
5 years ago
An auction today to settle credit default swaps referencing Astaldi has determined the final price to be 30.875 cents on the euro, meaning a 69.125 cents pay-out per euro for protection buyers -
Crossover converges on CDX HY as Fed, earnings and heavy technicals take hold
5 years ago
Big moves of single name credits continue to hold sway over the iTraxx Europe Crossover credit default swap index, whose underperformance of US counterpart CDX HY has extended during the past week amid a big technical repositioning of flows -
CLO managers on alert as five credits drive Crossover index rout
5 years ago
Five constituents of iTraxx Crossover have hit big bumps this week, fuelling a noticeable underperformance of the European credit default swap index against its US counterpart yesterday in a reversal of the recent trend -
Market favours retrospective over forward-looking approach to Ibor benchmark fallbacks, says Isda
5 years ago
New benchmark fallbacks for derivatives contracts that reference interbank offered rates are likely to be based on the “compounded setting in arrears rate” and the “historical mean/median approach to the spread adjustment”, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has said -
Credit sell-off has room to run and pricing is out of whack, says BNP Paribas
5 years ago
The credit market sell-off could have further to go despite recent widening and is “in the process of a late-stage business cycle unwind”, according to a strategist note seen by Creditflux -
ESMA pushes for continued UK clearing access in event of no-deal Brexit
5 years ago
The European Securities and Markets Authority will support continued access to UK central clearing counterparties for EU clearing members and trading venues after 30 March in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the organisation has said -
10 bidders line up for Astaldi CDS auction as Morgan Stanley swaps in for Mizuho
5 years ago
There will be 10 participating bidders to an auction to settle Astaldi credit default swaps, with the Determinations Committee unanimously approving Morgan Stanley’s involvement as Mizuho dropped out -
Astaldi credit event auction deadline looms for participating bidders
5 years ago
Firms wishing to take part next week in a credit event auction to settle Astaldi credit default swaps have until 5pm London time today (23 November) to submit participating bidder letters to the Determinations Committee -
European CDS index tightens inside US even as bonds languish
5 years ago
Credit derivatives markets have hit a key point of trend reversal this week, with the iTraxx Europe five-year CDS index trading inside its US counterpart CDX IG for the first time since May
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