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Concern is growing over the European Securities and Markets Authority’s process of establishing definitions and thresholds in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive – a critical part of which is the process for determining whether an instrument is liquid. If thresholds are calculated incorrectly, market makers may be less willing to provide liquidity to clients, prompting concerns that other market participants may use public data to trade against them, according to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. -
Synthetic collateralised debt obligations, one of the financial products synonymous with the global crisis, are set to accelerate their recent tentative comeback. Real money investors are joining hedge funds in chasing the controversial instruments’ double-digit yields, write Will Caiger-Smith and Beth Shah.
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The Intercontinental Exchange has added five new currency contracts to its suite of FX contracts, highlighting investor demand for more access to currency risk management and hedging strategies via emerging market currencies.
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Real money investors, and other investors with a long cash portfolio, have been buying volatility on European credit default swap indices.
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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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Fresh concerns about downside risks to global demand sent markets lower and option volatility higher in the first few sessions of the year. As if to acknowledge growing expectations for a more volatile 2015, changes in the level of S&P 500 implied volatility set a new record before the first full week of trading was even complete. Investors saw new reasons to worry about the political stability of the eurozone and about its economic path, as Greece moved toward elections and PMI and inflation data suggested weaker growth prospects for the EU. In addition, the continued drop in oil prices led some participants to wonder whether the weak energy market was indicative of worsening broader global demand.
