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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.
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Hedge funds and real money players have been snapping up payer spreads on iTraxx Main following the Bank of Japan’s unexpected announcement that it would increase monetary stimulus spending, resulting in a steepening of the payer smile. -
Options trading volumes on the dollar against the yen has continued to spike following the Bank of Japan’s unexpected announcement that it would ramp up its monetary stimulus in another round of quantitative and qualitative easing.
