Live and Happening All Around Me - A Genuine Panic Exodus
February 18, 2009
Downgrades Loom for Hungary, Poland, Bond Yields Show | www.bloomberg.com
The Market has taken fright of the Eastern European marketplace and all assets, with little regard to their fundamentals, are collapsing... In other words, ladies and gentlemen, it's a genuine triple A panic exodus.
February 18, 2009
Bloomberg TV Tries To Become A Player | www.cbsnews.com
Bloomberg TV is a studious but dull product suffering from a certain lack of focus on just whether it wants to be in mass market financial television or a specialist digital arm of the news and data vendor.
February 18, 2009
ICE plans European CDS clearer | www.ft.com
The greatest misunderstanding in markets currently is that CDS will suddenly be traded on an open CCP platform.
Deals Look Unlikely But There 's Value In Exchanges...
February 9, 2009
Financial Times FT.com | www.ft.com
The exchange industry is enduring a post bubble malaise but the prospects for investment remain considerable.
African Exchange Competition Is Emerging Rapidly...
February 9, 2009
Financial Times FT.com | www.ft.com
From a curious amalgam of exchanges which have not made the world sit up and take notice, suddenly Africa is about to be fought over by various new entrants and the only longstanding viable entity, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Lessons in Selling Thanksgiving (or Christmas!) to Turkeys
February 6, 2009
Exchanges are already muscling into the unruly over-the-counter market | www.economist.com
Exchanges are indeed trying to get more access to OTC markets but the markets they can realistically take business in are only likely to be the more commoditised ones...
Towards A More Pragmatic Fee Regime
February 6, 2009
Hedge fund fees are being squeezed | www.economist.com
Hedge fund fees overall are probably going down although Funds of Funds and less successful funds will be hurt more than most.
CDS Drink At The Last Chance Saloon!
February 4, 2009
EU pushes for more control of risky trades - International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com
Commissioner McCreevy is clearly signalling a get tough policy in the absence of any genuinely credible industry attempt to reform the CDS business.
February 3, 2009
Future Clearing for Freight Traders | online.wsj.com
Central Counter Party (CCP) Clearing is now a step closer to ubiquity in global freight trading...
Is that Open OTC, Closed CCP or Neither?
February 2, 2009
ICAP says part of group mulling LCH.Clearnet offer | www.iht.com
A consortium deal for LCH.Clearnet threatens the DTCC takeover. Moreover, the purchasers have a fascinating ability to reshape current market infrastructure...and it may not be in the way that government/regulators are hoping to see it reshaped!
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January 23, 2012
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January 9, 2012
Europe's CO2 Emissions Trading System works, but it can be improved
December 16, 2011
European women wonder why their insurance premiums will increase
December 15, 2011
Can Verisk Analytics sell its advisory loss cost products overseas?
November 22, 2011