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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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A requirement looming next week for major banks in the US to begin posting initial margin on uncleared swaps has prompted a chaotic scramble to comply with the deadline, said observers, while also elevating concerns about the preparedness of the rest of the market to meet future mandates. Dan Alderson reports. -
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Deutsche Börse have submitted their merger plans to European competition regulators, in the hopes of wrapping up the deal in the first half of 2017.
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Abundant oil reserves transform a country’s economy. The results are not always positive — some sovereigns suffer from the “Dutch Disease”, which inhibits exports of non-oil goods through an appreciation in the real exchange rate. But overall natural resources, in particular oil and gas, prove to be a boon for the lucky country’s finances.
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Blockchain initiatives in financial markets came to the fore this week, with a group of banks teaming up to apply the technology to making payments and settling transactions, while a survey of 25 financial exchanges found that most of them are testing distributed ledger technology.
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UBS and three other banks are working together to apply blockchain technology to making payments and settling transactions in financial markets.
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Bondholders in Fairhold Securitisation, a pre-crisis CMBS deal backed by sheltered housing ground rents in the UK, are pushing to tear up a huge swap liability in the structure, which could leave Lloyds and UBS, the swap counterparties, more than £500m out of pocket.
