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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 US Securities and Exchange Commission has a chance to examine its conscience over plans to curb derivatives use. It should do so after the industry condemned a sweeping approach that revealed little comprehension of the many sensible interactions that exist between derivatives and everyday capital markets.
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Recent actions by the European Central Bank and US Federal Reserve, along with more buoyant commodity prices, have reined in a long running market dislocation, with the basis between credit default swaps and cash bonds having tightened during March.
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has slammed the Depository Clearing Corporation’s Derivatives Repository on several counts for delays over data access, but served up a €64,000 fine for the breaches — a figure that amounts barely to an office whipround.
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Investments into emerging market equity exchange traded funds have slumped this year, but this has left call structures and outperformance options looking cheap if Chinese capital outflows ease.
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Monetary policy and declining oil prices caused unusual currency correlations in recent quarters, say bank analysts, but changes in sentiment around developed market currencies and the prospects for US inflation look set to send those measures back toward normal levels.
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) looks set for lengthy deliberation after critics lined up to savage its proposed rule on the use of derivatives. The rule would change the way that mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and other investment companies measure risk, and would limit their use of derivatives in ways that could have sweeping effects across the investment management industry.