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  • Investors may soon see structured equity products listed on exchanges as banks look to save costs by using electronic platforms to quote standardised products, instead of individually pricing them over-the-counter.
  • The process of minimising line items in a portfolio has been a driving force behind trade compression and termination tools, but whether or not it is the ideal solution has been questioned by some market participants. Gabriel Suprise investigates.
  • LCH-CME basis swaps have been growing in frequency as dealers seek to balance exposure between one or more central counterparties, reports Beth Shah.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.