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  • Jun 19, 2013 - Hazel Sheffield

    Assenagon Switches From Short Bonds To Long CDS

    Asset manager Assenagon is among the players that are switching from selling bonds to selling credit default swap protection on the same underlyings to take advantage of potential gains on higher CDS spreads.

  • Jun 19, 2013 - Daniel O'Leary

    Nomura To Downsize Aussie Equity Biz

    Nomura is shrinking its equity sales, trading and research teams in Australia, which will lead to redundancies.

  • Jun 19, 2013 - Daniel O'Leary

    Shanghai CCP Seen Clearing By Year-End

    The Shanghai Clearing House is likely to start mandatory central clearing of yuan-denominated interest rate swaps before year-end, according to market participants.

  • Jun 18, 2013 - Beth Shah

    USD/JPY Riskies Tipped To Spike As Vol Rockets

    Risk-reversals in the U.S. dollar against the yen are now trading at levels not witnessed since 2011; so, strategists see value in buying.

  • Jun 18, 2013 - Hazel Sheffield

    MiFIR Creates Derivative Licensing Roadblock

    A clause in the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation, which allows benchmark providers to refuse index licenses, has been criticized by over-the-counter derivatives participants who argue the move stifles competition.

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  • Jun 19, 2013 - Hazel Sheffield

    Assenagon Switches From Short Bonds To Long CDS

    Asset manager Assenagon is among the players that are switching from selling bonds to selling credit default swap protection on the same underlyings to take advantage of potential gains on higher CDS spreads.

  • Jun 17, 2013 - Hazel Sheffield

    BNP Tips Tapering Strategy Ahead of Bernanke Address

    Investors should buy receiver spreads 1x2 and ladders on the iTraxx Main, since such instruments offer a cheap or zero cost way to construct a bullish position ahead of an address by Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, at the Federal Open Market Committee on June 19. Bernanke is expected to announce that the Fed will begin tapering monetary policy in the U.S., leading some strategists to take a position on the iTraxx Main that will benefit in the event that the index tightens.

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Equity

  • Jun 19, 2013 - Daniel O'Leary

    Nomura To Downsize Aussie Equity Biz

    Nomura is shrinking its equity sales, trading and research teams in Australia, which will lead to redundancies.

  • Jun 14, 2013

    People Databank

    Barclays made the most senior hire of the week, appointing ex-Goldman Sachs trader Michael Winkelgrund as head of exchange-traded fund trading. Deutsche Bank, meanwhile, hired Monty Lee as a senior index options trader from Barclays. In Asia Pacific, Nicholas Smith has replaced PJ Andersson as global head of pan-Asian equity derivative and convertible sales at Citigroup, after the latter left the firm last week.

Rates

  • Jun 19, 2013 - Daniel O'Leary

    Shanghai CCP Seen Clearing By Year-End

    The Shanghai Clearing House is likely to start mandatory central clearing of yuan-denominated interest rate swaps before year-end, according to market participants.

  • Jun 18, 2013 - Daniel O'Leary

    JSCC Eyes Client Clearing For Early 2014

    The Japan Securities Clearing Corp. is aiming to begin its client clearing service for yen-denominated interest rate swaps in Q1 2014, according to market participants in the country.

Regulation/Clearing

  • Jun 18, 2013 - Hazel Sheffield

    MiFIR Creates Derivative Licensing Roadblock

    A clause in the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation, which allows benchmark providers to refuse index licenses, has been criticized by over-the-counter derivatives participants who argue the move stifles competition.

  • Jun 18, 2013 - Robert McGlinchey

    E.U. Committee Targets Higher FTT For OTC

    The European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee has proposed that participating countries in the Financial Transaction Tax should be permitted to apply a higher rate of tax to what it determines risker over-the-counter derivatives trades, compared to exchange-traded derivatives, cash equities and bonds.

People & Firms

  • Jun 19, 2013 - Daniel O'Leary

    Nomura To Downsize Aussie Equity Biz

    Nomura is shrinking its equity sales, trading and research teams in Australia, which will lead to redundancies.

  • Jun 17, 2013 - Beth Shah

    JPM Taps Citi Equity Derivs Trader

    Brian Alvarez, a single-stock derivatives trader at Citigroup in New York, has joined JPMorgan, as an executive director in equity derivatives, also in New York.

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    Apr 18, 2013 - Robert McGlinchey

    OIS Roundtable 2013

    Since the latter part of 2007, there has been an increased switch by market participants in adopting overnight indexed swap discounting for interest rate swaps.

  • Jul 05, 2012 - Robert McGlinchey

    In Defense Of Tucker

    Prior to Bob Diamond’s U.K. Treasury Select Committee hearing on the firm’s manipulation of Libor, commentators alluded to the impact Diamond’s comments would have on the integrity and career of Paul Tucker, deputy governor, financial stability at the Bank of England. Yet, Diamond’s comments were never in doubt.

  • May 24, 2012 - Robert McGlinchey

    Dimon’s Status As Top Lobbyist Dampens Gloating

    You would have thought that news of USD2 billion in losses incurred by JPMorgan’s chief investment office from trading in indices tied to credit default swaps would have fuelled some schadenfreude among the firm’s competitors, but among senior market observers that has not been the sentiment in recent weeks.

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