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The Americas derivatives community came together in New York to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements across the industry
The derivatives market gathered in London on Thursday night to celebrate its leading players
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US investors are pushing out maturities on their structured products and notes, extending the transactions beyond four-to-six years in a bid to gain better yields.
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Volumes of package transactions in the US, or derivatives with more than one leg, stabilized Thursday after a brief decline at the start of the week, as rules governing their mandatory execution over swap execution facilities came into effect on Monday. -
Pension funds are entering into total return swaps on the Eurostoxx 50 to collect carry, driven by low volatility in other classes and the knock-on effect of the European Central Bank’s recent announcement regarding its liquidity programme. The funds are buying short term and selling long term TRS on the underlying in an effort to collect positive carry and roll-down.
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Laurent Ichard, ex-co-head of equities distribution at JPMorgan in London, has joined Citigroup as head of pan-Asia equity derivative flow sales in Hong Kong.
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Tighter Chinese liquidity conditions backed a bid in short CNY swaps on Thursday. A continuation of this pressure is expected to drive flattening pressure across the 2s/5s slope into the end of the quarter. Meanwhile, Nomura has outlined a short-end CNH IRS trade idea, Moody's expects China's credit ratings to withstand the rebalancing challenge and the UK has tightened its CNY trading ties, writes Deirdre Yeung of Total Derivatives.
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Examiners investigating investment banks' compliance with the Volcker rule in the US will scrutinise any recent mergers of trading desks into single entities.
