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SIX Securities Services, a Swiss clearing house and provider of post-trade services, has announced plans to establish a trade repository for derivatives in Switzerland using the London Stock Exchange’s UniVista platform. -
The cost of downside put protection rose over the past week, suggesting continued risk aversion among investors as they weigh a diverse set of obstacles to stability and global growth.
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Greece was relegated to emerging market status by several index providers last year, and its recent turmoil seems to justify the reclassification. But the ongoing problems in there shouldn’t overshadow issues in sovereigns more familiar to EM investors.
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On Wednesday the People's Bank of China (PBoC) cut its reserve requirement ratio (RRR) by 50bp in a move that the market had not expected to happen until after the Chinese New Year holiday. The shift triggered a flurry of receiving in short-end swaps on Thursday morning and short-end outperformance drove some disinversion momentum across the curve, writes Deirdre Yeung of Total Derivatives.
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Hedge funds are looking at buying single name credit default swaps on Greek names after a muted market reaction to the election of the Syriza party to government.
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ICAP believes that the fine imposed by the European Commission of €14.96m (£11.3m) on Wednesday for having breached EU antitrust rules by facilitating several cartels in the sector of yen interest rate derivatives is wrong both in fact and in law.
