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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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--Ananda Radhakrishnan, director of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Division of Clearing and Intermediary Oversight, on the need for a boost in the agency's funding.
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The sovereign credit markets had rallied sharply in the run-up to the Eurogroup/Ecofin meetings on January 18-19. Rhetoric from various high-ranking European officials, including European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, had given rise to optimism that the E.U. would abandon its caution and take a more radical approach to the sovereign debt crisis.
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With the move towards establishing central clearinghouses and data repositories, politicians and regulators around the world are debating whether to establish a national central clearinghouse and national data repository for over-the-counter derivatives in their jurisdictions. Given the globalization of this market, the proliferation of data repositories would actually impede the ability of the international regulatory community to assess global systemic risk. While the impulse is for each jurisdiction to implement its own data repository, this approach would prove to be counterproductive in the long run.
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Clariden Leu's SAAF II Global Fund has been liquidated, a move that will likely generate capital losses for investors in open-ended structured notes that reference the performance of the fund.
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JPMorgan has launched an index tailored towards equity structured product investors, the ETF Efficiente 5 Index, which contains a basket of 12 exchange traded funds and the JPMorgan Cash Index USD 3 Month.
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Adam Crawford, head of equity derivatives structuring for the Asia Pacific at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, left the firm this week, according to officials.