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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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Nasdaq OMX has announced that it plans to launch NLX, a London-based interest rate derivatives platform, in the first quarter of 2013, pending regulatory approval.
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Deutsche Bank is preparing to re-enter the synthetic exchange-traded fund market in Hong Kong later this year with an equity-linked deal referencing Asian indices.
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Société Générale strategists are advising clients to buy USD10 million South Korea credit default swaps at 127 basis points and sell USD6 million Asia ex- Japan Itraxx CDS at 188 bps to hedge against a possible downturn in the Korean equity market. -
Asset managers and hedge funds have been reducing their exposure to the Eurostoxx 50 index dividend futures expiring in 2012 and 2013 by selling variations of calls or rolling options to 2014 and 2015 futures. The move is being driven by growing fears over how dividends are to be taxed in the eurozone. Another issue is the potential impact of further scrip dividends issued by European institutions and what the breakup of those dividends will be over the next two years.
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The Canadian Securities Administrators has published a comment consultation paper with proposals for a framework for over-the-counter central counterparty clearing.
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has adopted an interim final rule amending its lending limits to apply to certain credit exposures arising from derivative transactions, credit exposures from a derivative transaction, repurchase agreement, reverse repurchase agreement, securities lending transaction, or securities borrowing transaction, effective July 12.
