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Foreign counterparties that fall under the scope of European Markets Infrastructure Regulation could find that derivatives transactions priced as OTC are retrospectively eligible for clearing under third-country equivalence rules, according to lawyers. It means that participants could be entering OTC trades at different pricing levels compared to those trades eligible for clearing, while finding later that they will also have an obligation to clear that OTC trade. -
Further growth is required in the Chicago Board Options Exchange’s short-term volatility index futures in order to drive volume and liquidity in the newly launched short-term VIX options.
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Complex package transactions may be difficult to price electronically now that the package transaction requirement to trade such products on swap execution facilities is live, according to Nathan Jenner, coo of fixed income, currency and commodity trading at Bloomberg.
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Equity structurers have been reinvigorated. With companies sitting on mountains of cash, M&A being the talk of the town and increased market expectation for stock buyback growth, structurers are tirelessly back to what they do best—being knee-deep in quantitative and qualitative data into the early hours in an effort to compile the most optimum solutions for clients.
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Asset managers and banks have been adding outright payers and payer spreads with strikes around 80-85 basis points and expiries to June and September. The flow has increased following a 5bp increase in the iTraxx Main last Thursday.
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Société Générale has launched a novel algorithm on cash equities and futures that aims to give institutional investors further discretion when trying to minimise slippage versus a strike price at a specified time in the future.
