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The impact of reform of the over-the-counter markets on fixed-income revenue may have been overestimated, according to a report by Morgan Stanley and Oliver Wyman.
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Standard & Poor’s has been hit by a second class action by Australian investors alleging the agency misled them by assigning AAA and AA ratings to eight collateralized debt obligations in 2007.
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From 1 April 2013, a new financial regulation framework took effect in the U.K. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is replaced by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), the Bank of England is to have overall responsibility for financial stability and a new Financial Policy Committee (FPC) of the Bank of England is being created. However, the Financial Services Act 2012 does more than just give effect to these regulatory reforms. -
New York-based Javelin Capital Markets, which runs an interest rate swaps and credit derivatives trading venue, has opened an office in London following a spike in demand from end users in Europe.
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Institutional investors are showing increased demand for convexity on the S&P500 instruments such as wing options or buy buying a variance swap and selling a volatility swap on the index, Roger Naylor, head of global equity derivatives at UBS in London, told DI in an exclusive interview. Volume has yet to increase sharply, but requests are up given cheap convexity.
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Index provider STOXX has launched two benchmarks to rival Libor and Euribor. The STOXX GC Pooling index family provides a representation of the secured euro funding transactions taking place on the Eurex Repo GC Pooling Market, effectively creating a third-party alternative to unsecured interbank benchmarks.
