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  • Jimmy Neissa is planning to retire as global head of investment banking at UBS at the end of March.
  • UBS has appointed Barry Sharkey and Dane Fitzgibbon as co-heads of capital markets for Australia.
  • The Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority is holding firm on reducing structured products that it considers complex despite industry opposition to the regulator’s proposal.
  • With the growing popularity of VIX derivatives, the innovations in these products have flourished over the last few years. In early 2009, Barclays introduced the VIX-related exchange-traded products, with VXX and VXZ--iPath S&P500 VIX Future—replicating the short-term and mid-terms VIX futures, respectively.
  • Assad Amin, global head of equity execution at the Royal Bank of Scotland in London, has left the firm.
  • Fears of a retracement in U.S. equities are being exacerbated by expected month-end rebalancing flows by pension funds into bonds that is in turn forcing insurance companies hedging variable annuity exposure to shorten maturities on variance swaps and out-of-the-money puts to avoid onerous premiums.