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  • A new strategy of selling cross-asset short maturity out-of-the-money strangles, while deploying a shadow profit and loss risk enhancement, has been devised by Société Générale as a way to monetize the tail premium within options volatility.
  • The big moves this past week were the hiring of Makram Fares, ex- co-head of European equity sales and equity derivatives at Nomura, by Forte Securities.
  • Greece, for so long the country at the epicenter of the European debt crisis, looks set to fade into the background after it completed a debt buyback.
  • Investors looking to hedge against a fall off the fiscal cliff should purchase a Jan. 11 straddle on the S&P 500, according to BNP Paribas.
  • A hedge fund made a profit in excess of USD20 million on a one-touch option on U.S. dollar/yen after the JPY83.00 barrier was hit during London afternoon trading Wednesday, according to traders, who declined to name the fund due to confidentiality agreements.
  • Bart Chilton, a member of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said the agency should delay by six months compliance with the swap rules under the Dodd-Frank Act until U.S. and foreign regulators figure out how to limit gaps in oversight.