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The Americas derivatives community came together in New York to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements across the industry
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More banks than ever are turning to balance sheet CDOs to hedge their loan books, with a boost from Basel plans to increase risk weights for ordinary assets. Institutions such as Crédit Agricole, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank have ramped up their issuance programmes, while others are entering the market for the first time, as with Nordea.
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Tullett Prebon has extended its land grab in hybrid voice brokerage across trading classes, with a foreign exchange platform launch this week adding to recent manoeuvres in other areas such as rates and credit derivatives.
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Dovish actions taken by the Bank of England last week, particularly its sterling corporate bond buying programme, helped send short dated credit and equity implied volatility near to their post-crisis lows, prompting traders to begin to roll out of short volatility trades and size up potential bumps in September. -
Spanish engineering firms with exposure in Latin America may not be the most heavily traded segment of the credit markets, but they are certainly proving the most vulnerable.
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Sterling bond yields may be sinking but that has rekindled investor demand for UK bond exchange traded funds at the expense of Gilts, according to IHS Markit.
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Support for the London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse’s merger plans has solidified among the German exchange’s shareholders, with more than 75% having tendered their shares — crossing the original threshold set by management.
