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  • 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 into 2015 and beyond, which we consider further below.
  • Market participants have been buying vanilla options on the Norwegian krone as the currency continues to weaken as a consequence of the oil price rout. Low liquidity is in turn widening bid-ask spreads.
  • The Chicago Board Options Exchange is now publishing values for three new volatility indexes using the prices of CME Group’s FX futures options in response to client demand.
  • Euronext has launched plain vanilla options on six of its iShares exchange-traded funds on the firm's Amsterdam derivatives market in response to investor demand.
  • Asset managers are concerned about peripheral names in European credit given the potential for a Greek exit of the Eurozone, which could have unpredictable effects on the direction of markets.
  • Overall interest rate trading that was reported to swap data repositories last week increased by 420% from the previous week, according to data from the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. Overall credit default swap notional that was reported, also increased by 400% from the previous week.