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The Americas derivatives community came together in New York to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements across the industry
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GlobalCapital’s annual Global Derivatives Awards in London on September 18 will honour the people, companies and deals that shaped derivatives markets over the last year. Among those winners will be Blythe Masters of JP Morgan, winner of the Outstanding Contribution Award. Ahead of the gala evening, Masters granted a rare interview to GlobalCapital’s Beth Shah to talk about her life and extraordinary career. -
Front month CBOE Volatility Index futures may experience a 1 vol point increase from -0.33 to 0.66 pts on Monday roll dates relative to historics, due to recent changes made to the indices methodology, closing off a strategy systematic volatility traders have been using to capitalise on the weekly “seasonality” effects of the roll.
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Morgan Stanley is in the final development stages of its swap execution facility agency service and should launch the platform in the coming months.
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The Chicago Board Options Exchange is in talks with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority regarding an agreement for FINRA to provide certain regulatory services to the CBOE and C2 options markets.
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Fx volatility, particularly in sterling, has increased on the back of increased options trading due to the uncertainty of the outcome of the upcoming Thursday Scottish referendum. This comes following months of historically low fx vols and a continued slump in trading volumes.
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Hedge funds and asset managers with exposure to Russian banks have been buying credit default swaps on EU companies with exposure to Russia, implementing a proxy hedge in light of new sanctions against Russian reference entities, writes Hazel Sheffield, just as one law firm warned of the perils of trading CDS on the country's credits.
