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Collateral is being locked up in bottlenecks caused by changes to regulations, central bank policy and risk management techniques, potentially making the take-up of central clearing of over-the-counter derivatives harder. -
Investors should consider volatility swaps should the correlation between euro/sterling and sterling/dollar turn positive, therefore widening the volatility spread between the two currency pairs. Sterling/dollar has recently been skewed to the upside, while euro/sterling has dropped since Bank of England governor Mark Carney threatened to hike interest rates earlier than the market expected; meaning the correlation between the two currency pairs has been strongly negative.
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Maurice Nadjar-Primack, a managing director in emerging markets equity trading at Barclays in London, has left the firm.
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Julien Raffelsbauer, ex-head of high yield, leveraged loans, special situations and distressed debt at BNP Paribas in London is joining HSBC in a senior credit trading role.
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Large insurance companies are buying index options or variance swaps with two-year maturities on the Nikkei 225 and TOPiX against the S&P 500 or Eurostoxx 50 as a relative value trade.
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CNY swaps were better bid across most of the curve on Monday on the back of a firm Chinese PMI report and concerns about liquidity going into the quarter-end, writes Deirdre Yeung of Total Derivatives.
