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James Boyle, head of equity derivatives trading, Asia Pacific, at Citigroup in Hong Kong, has been named as global head of equity derivatives, replacing Simon Yates who recently left the firm to join Two Sigma Securities as ceo.
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Kim Stolz, vp in equity derivatives sales at Citigroup in New York, has left the firm and will join Bank of America Merrill Lynch as a director, Americas equity derivatives flow sales.
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Jose Mosquera, ex-head of financials trading, and Rob Illingworth, ex-senior investment grade corporates trader, have both left HSBC in London, writes Hazel Sheffield.
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Hedge funds and real money accounts have been selling credit default swaps on Deutsche Bank and buying CDS on Barclays, expecting Deutsche Bank to tighten relative to Barclays in light of litigation risk that could impact both banks.
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When Scott O’Malia, commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington DC, takes up his new role as chief executive officer of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, derivative trade data will be top of the agenda. Though swap data reporting has been running for two years in the US, there is still no automated way to crunch the data — a problem on both sides of the regulatory fence which O'Malia has been trying to solve for years at the CFTC.
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Short CNY swaps have been offered despite firm manufacturing data due to a focus on the People's Bank of China's efforts to alleviate liquidity pressures. Market participants expect curve trades to be closed if the recent flattening move extends. Meanwhile, dim sum activity has slowed because of Chinese credit concerns, writes Deirdre Yeung.