Top Section/Ad
Top Section/Ad
Most recent
CEB plans to print more structured notes and may launch inaugural Sofr bond in 2026
Japanese firm plucks banker from UBS
The Americas derivatives community came together in New York to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements across the industry
More articles/Ad
More articles/Ad
More articles
-
2014 continued to be an active year for financial regulation in the EU, with a push to finalise much of the outstanding primary legislation on the regulatory reform agenda and to move towards implementation of regulation already in place. The derivatives market will be particularly affected by the new regulatory landscape and the market will face many new challenges in 2015 and beyond.
-
The Singapore Exchange and ICAP’s electronic FX business, EBS, have teamed up to develop a new range of Asian currency products and services which will strengthen the liquidity in the FX over-the-counter derivatives and futures markets in Asia. -
Under MiFID II, forward contracts as currently defined will be considered financial instruments, which is raising significant concerns for commodity derivatives market participants as they will be subject to regulation that they weren’t previously.
-
New BNP Paribas investment bank boss Yann Gérardin is an equity derivatives man through and through, having built the business from scratch since he joined in 1987.
-
The precipitous decline in the oil price has taken some of the attention away from Greece, albeit until the elections next week. Less than four months ago the price of West Texas Intermediate crude was more than $100 a barrel; now it is languishing below $50.
-
Concerns are rising among market participants that the European Securities and Markets Authority is showing a lack of understanding of request-for-quote and other trading protocols as it prepares new rules. If ESMA imposes overly-restrictive transparency regulations on these technical systems, market participants may refrain from using them, according to lawyers.
