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The Americas derivatives community came together in New York to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements across the industry
The derivatives market gathered in London on Thursday night to celebrate its leading players
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Standish Mellon Asset Management has hired Murray Collis to help develop its Asian business.
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Umair Raza Naqvi, an executive director in equity derivatives and equity-linked products for the Middle East and North Africa at Morgan Stanley in Dubai, has joined Wells Fargo to head the firm’s sovereign wealth fund business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Axel Kilian, global head of equity derivative sales and head of equity distribution for EMEA at UBS in London, has left as part of the cost reduction measures announced by the firm earlier this year.
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The rate of structured product redemptions has eased recently in Asia, as investors hold on to investments amid uncertainty.
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The dollar premium has disappeared from the EMEA loan market. But don't be fooled into thinking this is just because banks have seen their dollar funding costs fall. It's as much to do with the fact that they are willing to take the hit and commit to loss-leading deals for the right clients.
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Standard & Poor's has come in for the bulk of criticism this week after the Federal Court of Australia found the agency to have been misleading and deceptive in awarding a triple-A rating to an extreme structured credit product, the CPDO. Less attention has been paid to the finding that the structuring bank, ABN Amro, was also deemed to have been misleading and deceptive as it sought to get the rating it wanted. But until the rating agencies move away from the issuer-pays model, the system will always be vulnerable.