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Sveriges Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank, says it plans to have in place a more transparent Stockholm Interbank Offered Rate by the end of the year.
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Jason Schechter has left as global head of collateralized loan obligations at UBS, which he joined last year from Barclays.
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UBS has named Jasper Tans as managing director and head of its equity capital markets for Scandinavia, Benelux and financials sector.
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Ever since European Central Bank President Mario Draghi started talking about bumblebees, the secondary credit markets have been reasonably well behaved. This was even more the case when the ECB announced its OMT program and the Federal Reserve followed up that act with QE3. After all, investors are understandably reluctant to challenge the resolve of central banks.
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Structured product dealers in Asia Pacific are redeeming legacy transactions across asset classes on their call dates. The moves wind down deals with high funding costs and allows banks potentially to issue simpler lower cost notes, according to structurers in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
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Hedge funds globally have been buying end-of-year-dated upside calls within the last two weeks on the Nikkei and HSCEI, with out-the-money strikes of between 103-105% of spot.