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The Americas derivatives community came together in New York to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements across the industry
The derivatives market gathered in London on Thursday night to celebrate its leading players
Internal restrictions mean SSAs issue fewer CMS-linked notes
JP Morgan and Dutch pension fund PGGM transacted derivatives margin trade
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With unanswered questions still cluttering the track of the Thru Train or Stock Connect, many are hoping regulators will use the launch delay to clarify the implementation of capital gains taxes on China-A shares. In order for the northbound track to truly take off, China regulators should clear uncertainty from the tracks and remove the tax altogether. -
Investors with large exposures to US interest rates are looking at new futures on the Chicago Board Options Exchange Futures Exchange 10 year US Treasury note volatility index, which will give them the means to manage interest rate volatility risk now that the US government has wound up its quantitative easing programme. From November 13, the so called VXTYN futures will allow investors to hedge pure interest rate volatility risk based on US government debt in a single product for the first time.
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The growth scare of October has given way to a relatively sanguine outlook for equities into the year’s end, based on the cost of tail risk around the world. While option premiums remain high in some markets, investors have quickly reduced their demand for short-term protection in U.S. and Chinese stocks and in Treasuries.
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Elizabeth Nolan, ex-head of global client services and client onboarding for markets and investor services at JPMorgan in London, is set to join Deutsche Bank as head of custody and clearing, also in London, effective January 2015.
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The Bank of England is to provide a liquidity back-stop to central counterparty clearing houses and brokers deemed critical to the stability of the UK financial system, shoring up so-called ‘too big to fail’ clearing houses in times of crisis.
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Regulators must work together to oversee clearing houses because, although they diminish risk they do not do away with it, Timothy Massad, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has said.
