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The derivatives market gathered in London on Thursday night to celebrate its leading players
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The European Securities and Markets Authority is expanding its derivatives, credit rating agency and asset management expertise, and has today begun hiring for its Markets and Intermediaries Division.
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RP Capital, the alternative investment firm founded by Rafael Berber, the ex-global head of Merrill Lynch’s equity-linked product group, is to launch a UCITS emerging markets fund.
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Werner Langen’s amendments to the European Commission's legislative proposal on how to achieve an efficient, safe and sound derivatives market in Europe, have just been released in German. Click through to view the paper in full.
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Schroder Investment Management (Singapore) is seeking regulatory approval to launch three new multi-asset UCITS III sub-funds in Singapore. The funds would be sub-funds of the Luxembourg-domiciled Schroder International Selection Fund, SICAV, which falls under the UCITS III regime. UCITS III funds typically use derivatives as short positions can only be taken through equity swaps. Officials at Schroder in Singapore did not respond requests for comments.
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Credit default swaps are being deployed to capture the view spreads of European corporates located in core countries and those in so-called peripheral European corporates will converge. Players, among them hedge funds, are making the trades on the view European authorities will forge a solution for peripheral countries to deal with their debt loads.
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Richard Ketchum, president and CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to consider mandating that security-based swap data be consolidated before it is disseminated publicly.