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Tools that enable firms, whether buyside or sellside, to reduce the number of line items in a portfolio, while keeping the same risk profile, are changing the way market participants trade derivatives.
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The US has raced ahead of Europe and the rest of the world in implementing derivatives regulation since the global financial crisis in 2008. So it will come as no surprise that US buy and sellsiders are also ahead in implementing compression and similar tools to tidy up their balance sheets. However, Europe is not far behind, as Hazel Sheffield reports.
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The opening of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect in November, designed to enable Chinese investors to buy shares in Hong Kong, and international investors to access China’s A share market, promises to open up a new era in Chinese derivatives trading. As Hazel Sheffield reports, market participants are proceeding cautiously, but are confident that the market is going to get big. -
Talks over a European Financial Transaction Tax have been revived since 2014’s European elections. The tax is now being deliberated between 11 key EU member states. Although the scope of its coverage appears to have shrunk, the uncertainty may lead to unforeseen costs for derivatives market participants. Gabriel Suprise reports.
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New futures on a 10 year US Treasury Note Volatility Index, which allow investors to hedge interest rate volatility with a single product for the first time, are gaining traction. As the US is ending quantitative easing, market participants are tipping volumes to surge in the first quarter of 2015 as investors look to hedge their fears over looming rate hikes. Beth Shah reports.
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Harmonisation and crossborder issues are key concerns for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association as markets enter 2015. As Scott O’Malia, CEO of ISDA and former commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, tells Beth Shah, regulators need to ensure that crossborder oversight is based on risk and not location.
