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DTCC has issued over 165,000 legal entity identifiers to market pariticipants from over 140 jurisdictions, or 50% of the LEIs issued worldwide.
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BGC Partners has launched an electronic trading platform for yen interest rate swaps, making it the first interdealer broker to launch a fully electronic platform for such a market.
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Chinese imports plunged in January, reigniting concerns about the economy. Five to ten year swaps have led a rally in response and the 1s/5s curve slope, which had corrected steeper from last week's lows, is inverting again, writes Deirdre Yeung of Total Derivatives. -
Hedge funds took profits on short positions in credit default swap trades on Portugal Telecom ahead of the sale of its operating unit to Altice, the Luxembourg based cable investment company, on January 22.
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Investors have been buying put options on the euro against the Danish krone following the Danish central bank’s decision to cut rates in a bid to defend the fixed exchange rate policy. This has emerged despite low volumes in options trading since the Swiss National Bank’s shock move last month to abandon the euro/Swiss franc peg.
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The Chicago Board Options Exchange is expanding trading hours for CBOE Volatility Index options and S&P 500 options, adding more than six hours of trading per day, five days a week.
