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Cultural changes in fx have driven a move to simpler structured products as investors are not searching for leverage as much, according to Kevin Rodgers, global head of fx and chair of the global finance and foreign exchange executive committee at Deutsche Bank. The London-based executive told DI that product development has progressively gotten more complicated over the years, but he now sees users opting for relatively simple products. “The customer base doesn’t really want leverage as much now; I think that culture has changed since 2007-08 and so the pendulum has swung back a little bit.” -
The Federal Court of Australia’s ruling against Standard & Poor’s in case over a synthetic securitization could spark cases in other common law countries.
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The chairman of HSBC and ceos of Santander UK and Barclays have defended their banks’ use of interest rate swaps before the U.K. Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standard Joint Committee.
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Broker ITG has expanded its global brokerage services to offer futures execution capabilities and broker-neutral routing on venues in the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific.
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The Financial Stability Board has acknowledged that the G20 countries will not meet a year-end deadline for global swap reforms.
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Credit default swaps on South Korean sovereign debt narrowed to 65 basis points, their tightest level since it his 64 bps on May 22, 2008, according to the Korea Center for International Finance.
