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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is going to extend the no-action relief that was previously provided for trading certain package transactions on swap execution facilities, said Timothy Massad, CFTC Chairman at the 30th annual Futures & Options Expo in Chicago on Wednesday. -
It is apparent to all market participants that volatility, so long dormant during the quantitative easing-saturated era, has returned in recent weeks.
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MSCI has announced record levels of listed futures and options based on its indices in 2014, noting that changes in the market including global equities, passive management and increased regulation of over-the-counter instruments have brought with them new users.
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Institutional investors such as asset managers and some pension funds looking to track benchmarks are switching out of futures and into exchange traded funds (ETFs), which are increasingly offering better liquidity and lower trading costs, as banking regulation increases the cost of trading futures contracts.
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The leverage ratio, and the negative impact it is having on futures commission merchants' balance sheets, is increasing costs which are ultimately going to be passed down to the end user, and could force market participants to exit the derivatives business, according to panelists at the 30th annual Futures & Options Expo in Chicago on Wednesday.
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Anup Gupta, ex-Asia Pacific distribution head for Barclay’s structured products e-trading platform, has joined Vontobel as regional head Asia Pacific for the firm's structured products multi-issuer platform, deritrade, based in Singapore.
