Financials
Santander, Lloyds eye Isda fallbacks for AT1 Sonia switches
Lloyds follows Santander with last-minute revision to subordinated bond reset clauses
A tech-driven transformation
A panel of experts explores how greater collaboration between risk and finance teams can garner significant benefits and add value, how technological innovation is making the regulatory landscape more complicated to navigate and produce transformative…
Risk and finance – Better together
Changing regulations and new accounting standards are creating enormous challenges for financial organisations. Thorsten Hein, principal product marketing manager, risk research and quantitative solutions at SAS, explores why, to successfully meet these…
Credit data: Brexit gloom lifting for UK companies?
David Carruthers of Credit Benchmark looks at the most recent trends in bank-sourced credit data
Monthly credit data review: energy sector firing on all cylinders
Bank-sourced credit data shows rising confidence about oil and gas firms
Hildene Opportunities Fund: Hildene Capital Management
Brett Jefferson’s Hildene Capital Management has made a killing investing in beaten-down assets. His fund is the winner of hedge fund of the year and best distressed hedge fund, Americas Awards 2013
Armajaro plans hedge fund diversification and expansion
Under the leadership of CEO Harry Morley, commodity house Armajaro Asset Management is planning for a long-term future, running a diversified stable of hedge funds and significantly increasing AUM
Tapping demand for ex-financials exposure
Financial stocks have long been chosen as underlyings for structured products and exchange-traded products, but unprecedented volatility in the past year has forced issuers and providers to cater to investors with a multitude of viewpoints on the sector,…
UBS tops issuance with reverse convertibles linked to financials and natural resources
Financials, energy and natural resource stocks form the basis of most of the latest raft of reverse convertibles from UBS
Financials and tourism the latest picks for US structured product underlyings
Of the 91 structured products filed last week with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, more than 40 were reverse convertibles and nine were digitals. Financials and tourism were the most popular underlyings
Moon rises over StormHarbour
Moon Hong Hoo and Guohua Ren join from BNP Paribas and Standard Chartered, respectively
Van Kan the man for BNP Paribas
Julian van Kan new FIG head for Europe at BNP Paribas
European financials weather sovereign instability
April saw sentiment towards European financials hold firm, despite negative news in the sovereign market, with Portugal becoming latest member of sovereign bailout club