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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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Changing the selection rules for the CDX HY index, which references the debt of US high yield companies, should make it more useful for investors as a hedge against cash bonds. But the even better news is that Markit and CDS market makers seem to have learned from the experience of last year's changes to Europe's equivalent, the iTraxx Crossover.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers has called for an overhaul of regulations which are hurting market liquidity, as part of a major new report on the state of liquidity in financial markets, commissioned by the Global Financial Markets Association and the Institute for International Finance.
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Back in 2010, Brazil’s finance minister Guido Mantega warned that the world was in the midst of a “currency war” in the wake of US quantitative easing. The term is now back in vogue after China made the shock decision to devalue its currency.
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UBS has overhauled the senior management of its trading business, as Kevin Arnold, head of FX, rates and credit for the Americas, has been given a new cross-asset role that includes equities.
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Mizuho International has hired an experienced banker in London to head its European flow derivatives business.
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Markit has agreed to buy CoreOne Technologies, a provider of regulatory reporting, index management, data management and prime brokerage services to financial institutions.