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Bank intermediaries eye resurgence in profitable trades
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A Norwegian trader lost millions on Wednesday in a bad bet on the German and Nordic power markets, putting other members of Nasdaq Clearing on the hook for €107m in losses. The clearing house withstood the test to its capital buffers, but Nasdaq must be clear about what went wrong and what steps need to be taken to maintain confidence in its systems. -
Derivatives clearing specialists were left scrambling for information this week as lone Norwegian trader Einar Aas defaulted on his Nordic and German power portfolio, creating a €107m hole in Nasdaq Clearing's €166m Commodity Member Default Fund.
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Those at Lehman Brothers on Monday, September 15, 2008 will remember the moment the lines between the London and New York offices went dead.
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It is the 10th anniversary of Lehman’s collapse and we are being inundated with retrospectives and predictions of what will cause the next crisis. Many are pointing towards emerging markets as a likely catalyst, a logical conjecture given the tightening in monetary policy that is underway in the US.
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European banks helping the transition to alternative euro risk-free rates on Thursday chose the European Central Bank's euro short-term rate (Ester) as the preferred alternative to the euro overnight index average (Eonia).
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French asset manager Axiom Alternative Investments has hired Laurent Henrio, the former global head of credit trading activities at Société Générale, to run a new fund buying illiquid credit exposures in banks’ trading books.
