Provider Profile
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A personalised service
Steve Curry and Mike Nawas, partners at Bishopsfield Capital Partners, answer SCI's questions
Q: How and when did Bishopsfield Capital Partners become involved in the structured credit market?
MN: Steve and I each have over 20 years' structured finance experience gained at ABN AMRO and RBS.The recent turmoil in financial markets has led to unprecedented amounts of government support for the banking sector and market liquidity, a general .......
Provider Profile 3 March 2010
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Illiquid solution
Celestino Amore, md and founder of IlliquidX, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did IlliquidX become involved in the structured credit market?
Provider Profile 10 February 2010
A: IlliquidX is a financial services boutique providing innovative solutions to professional investors that include institutional, corporate and high net worth clients. We enable our clients to effectively price and trade illiquid securities, such as high yield and distressed debt, bankruptcy claims, NPLs, MBS, CLOs, CDOs and CSOs. .......
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The right direction
Rohan Douglas, ceo of Quantifi, answers SCI's questions
Provider Profile 27 January 2010
Q: How and when did Quantifi become involved in the structured credit market?
A: I set Quantifi up in 2002, having previously run the global credit derivative research group at Citi. I saw an opportunity at that time in an environment where the biggest banks had sophisticated internal risk management and pricing systems, but new entrants .......
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The regreening process
Richard Bennett, European president of Razor Risk Technologies, answers SCI's questions
Provider Profile 16 December 2009
Q: How and when did Razor Risk Technologies become involved in the structured finance market?
A: Razor Risk Technologies is an Australian firm listed on the ASX, which has been around since 1999 - although the risk management side of the business came about in 2003. We've built up our client roster steadily since then. It .......
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Wealth management
Tarek Khlat, co-founder and ceo at Crossbridge Capital, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did Crossbridge Capital become involved in the structured credit market?
A: We launched 15 months ago, with the idea of creating an independent advisory firm. Historically, the team was at Credit Suisse, but we wanted to step away from having the approach of a single institution in order to get a broader view of client portfolios.Clients .......
Provider Profile 25 November 2009
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Forensic analysis
Richard Barrent, president and coo of The Barrent Group, answers SCI's questions
Provider Profile 18 November 2009
Q: How and when did The Barrent Group become involved in the RMBS markets?
A: The Barrent Group began working on forensic mortgage loan reviews for clients in September 2008, looking to take action to recover losses on pools of loans that were purchased for residential mortgage-backed securities. Prior to that, our group was part of .......
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Supporting change
Rizwan Hussain and Pawan Malik, principals of Navigant Capit...
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Q: How and when did Navigant Consulting become involved in the structured credit market?
PM: Navigant Consulting is a US-listed firm, with around 2000 consultants focused on the health, construction, energy and financial services sectors. Our business incorporates financial analytic and litigation support, investigations and operational consultancy. The firm has office across North America and in .......
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Accessing dark pools
Robert Barsky, coo and a founder, and David Audley, founder...
Q: How and when did Beacon Capital Markets become involved in the structured credit market?
Provider Profile 5 August 2009
RB: Beacon was set up in 2004 to promote liquidity in less liquid markets by providing an open trading platform - called the Trade Discovery Platform - to all participants on an anonymous and equal basis. The platform is an electronic engine that matches buyers and .......
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Driving democratisation
Farooq Jaffrey, founder, chief executive and head broker of Traccr, answers SCI's questions
Provider Profile 1 July 2009
Q: How and when did Traccr become involved in the structured credit market?
A: We got UK FSA approval this month (June) and are now operating as the first retail CDS broker to market. Traditionally, the CDS markets have been available exclusively to volume players. However, the growing liquidity, ease of use and transparency of credit .......
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The new norm
Nicholas Stewart, head of structured credit products at Prime Source, answers SCI's questions
Nick Stewart Q: How and when did Prime Source become involved in the structured credit/ABS market?
Provider Profile 24 June 2009
A: Prime Source (NYSE Euronext) Limited was launched in early 2008 by NYSE Euronext group as part of its drive to provide more transparent and reliable independent asset pricing to the market. The Prime Source service has been .......
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Counterparty risk reduction
Michael Shapiro, director, and Andrew Scott, md at NetDelta answer SCI's questions
Andrew Scott Q: How and when did you/your firm become involved in the credit derivative market?
Provider Profile 20 May 2009
MS: NetDelta was founded in 2008 to address the counterparty risk management challenges that have been present in the credit derivative market since its inception. We believe that there is a structural problem in the OTC CDS .......
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Readying for redemption day
Andrew Smith, co-founder and president, and Karl D'Cuhna, se...
Q: When, how and why did your firm become involved in the structured credit markets?
Provider Profile 6 May 2009
AS: Houlihan Smith was founded in 1996 by Richard Houlihan and me. Richard, who was also the founder of Houlihan Lokey, has a background in restructuring and valuation and I have a background in investment banking, M&A and restructuring. Today the firm has offices in New .......
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Understanding the fundamentals
Mark Hale, Paul Levy, Charles Pardue and Malcolm Perry of The Prytania Group answer SCI's questions
Q: How and when did The Prytania Group become involved in the structured credit market?
Provider Profile 22 April 2009
Malcolm Perry, ceo: Prytania was established five years ago - with backing from JPMorgan - by Charles Pardue, who was one of the original members of the bank's structured finance team. The move was driven by the realisation that there was a limited amount of buy-side .......
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Embracing change
Jamie Cawley, ceo of IDX Capital, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did IDX Capital become involved in the structured credit market?
Jamie Cawley
A: My background is in sales and trading, having worked in corporate bonds, structured products and emerging markets at Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers and Bank of America. I saw an opportunity in CDS early on, in 2002, that from ....... Provider Profile 15 April 2009
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Insider knowledge
Dean Atkins, md of Structured Credit Trading Solutions, answers SCI's questions
Dean Atkins Q: How and when did you/your firm become involved in the structured credit market?
Provider Profile 11 March 2009
A: Structured Credit Trading Solutions (SCTS) was officially incorporated in September 2008. It is essentially an advisory company and does exactly what it says on the tin. It had become all too clear that there is not enough understanding .......
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An ever-changing environment
Jordan Hu, founder & ceo, and David Sawyer, chief ma...
How and when did you/your firm become involved in the structured credit market?
JH: RiskVal first became involved in the structured credit market around 2005. Many of our fixed income clients expressed interest for a fully integrated structured credit solution, similar to our RVFI (RiskVal Fixed Income) ASP platform.This motivated us to expand our business model to cover structured credit .......
Provider Profile 4 March 2009
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Unbundling real estate finance
Vlad Krutik, ceo of International Real Estate Securities Exchange (IRESE), answers SCI's questions
Vlad Krutik Q: How and when did your firm become involved in the structured credit market?
Provider Profile 18 February 2009
A: The genesis of IRESE was conceived about 2.5 years ago. At that time, a couple of academics (including Harry Markowitz) and I talked about investment opportunities in the real estate market. Specifically, we discussed the leverage that .......
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Illiquid incentives
Barry Silbert, ceo of SecondMarket, answers SCI's questions
Barry Silbert Q: How and when did your firm become involved in the structured credit market?
Provider Profile 11 February 2009
A: I previously worked at Houlihan Lokey, where my focus was on restructuring and distressed workouts. This was during the time of the Enron and WorldCom defaults. The idea for SecondMarket was developed from my experiences there: to .......
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One-stop valuation shop
David Pagliaro, EMEA commercial director, ABSXchange and Pet...
Q: When did ABSXchange and VSS launch? What is the history behind the offerings and what is their involvement in the structured credit markets?
David Pagliaro
DP: ABSXchange entered the European market in 2005, with a strong focus on supporting sell-side organisations and structurers. Standard & Poor's then acquired IMAKE, the technology provider behind ABSXchange, in ....... Provider Profile 4 February 2009
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Bringing clarity to chaos
Hansol Kim, founding partner of structured credit advisory f...
Hansol Kim Q: How and when did Pine Lakes Capital become involved in the structured credit market?
Provider Profile 28 January 2009
A: Pine Lakes Capital launched at the end of 2008. Having spent the last 14 years of my career at Financial Security Assurance, I felt I had something to offer the market in these distressed times and .......
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Flight to simplicity
In this Provider Profile, we talk to Sasha Rozenberg, head o...
Sasha Rozenberg SuperDerivatives offers a multi-asset pricing product suite developed out of the company's original offering in the FX markets in 2000. During a period of high growth for dot.com businesses, company founder David Gershon delivered a business model for the time - a web-based product for corporate customers. Unlike other internet .......
Provider Profile 16 April 2008
