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JP Morgan and Dutch pension fund PGGM transacted derivatives margin trade
◆ Chinese bank treasury shift from USTs to dollar callables considered ◆ Some European SSAs face cross-currency limitations ◆ Previous market staple 'almost non-existent'
Bank intermediaries eye resurgence in profitable trades
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The derivatives industry is engaging with efforts to create credible alternative reference rates to Libor, but three years is too little time to achieve this and more attention needs to focus on the existing benchmark itself. -
Fundamental factors rightly garner the most attention when investors try to ascertain why markets move. Even if one regards markets as perfectly efficient and favour index tracking, it would be foolhardy to completely ignore real world influences when managing money.
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Stoxx on Thursday announced the launch of indices for the liability driven investment industry, products that are ready suited for derivative contract creation.
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Allen & Overy, IHS Markit and Smart Communications subsidiary SmartDX on Thursday announced that they had launched a platform to speed up the repapering of derivatives contracts, in anticipation of new regulatory requirements.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) has proposed new powers that could allow it to control elements of foreign clearing houses’ operations (CCPs) in “exceptional” crisis situations, according to a leaked position paper. This is likely to escalate already tense relations with US regulators.
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Controls have been tightened after the high-profile losses that banks took on margin loans when retail conglomerate Steinhoff ran into trouble late last year. But strategic equity solutions businesses remain central to equity capital markets, writes David Rothnie.
