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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. -
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.
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Investors are now actively trading the UBS delta-hedged short volatility strategic index launched last year that seeks to replicate a series of short S&P 500 options as market participants look to gain risk premium exposure.
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Market participants are showing substantial interest in structured products on the iBoxx Euro Contingent Convertible Index on the back of a surge in popularity of contingent convertible (CoCo) bonds. This comes after the European Central Bank’s decision to introduce quantitative easing last month.
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The idea that non-deliverable forwards should be cleared has never been easy to swallow for some in the FX market. So it comes as no surprise that the European Securities and Markets Authority has decided not to introduce clearing for NDFs. To implement that mandate now would mean piling pressure on market participants to clear an unstandardised, infant product at the same time as they are grappling with clearing for credit default swaps and interest rates.
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The British Bankers Association (BBA) has suggested that the UK's Prudential Regulatory Authority and Financial Conduct Authority extend their controversial Senior Managers Regime (SMR) to include other firms in the wholesale markets. This move is likely to hit the broker community the hardest.
