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Singapore Exchange's CCP has cleared more than $3 billion notional worth of Malaysian Ringgit and Thai Bhat non-deliverable interest rate swaps since the products launched a month ago.
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Uncertainty over the definition of a derivative in proposed UK bail-in regulation could increase risk in the market as it allows counterparties to interpret the term in different ways, according to lawyers.
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A number of swap execution facilities (SEFs) may be forced into a fight for survival as they struggle to attract liquidity and trading volumes. That has raised questions over how SEFs can survive a derivatives market undergoing heavy reconstruction, report Beth Shah and Daniel O’Leary. -
It’s been a while since the eurozone’s periphery had any meaningful impact on broader market sentiment. Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” pronouncement in 2012 put paid to the regular bouts of volatility emanating from Europe’s beleaguered sovereigns. But on May 15, just over four years since the first Greek bailout, we received a reminder that peripheral CDS spreads still have the capacity to widen. And the movements weren’t insignificant—about a month’s worth of gains was wiped out in an afternoon.
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The move by MSCI to upgrade UAE and Qatar from frontier status to emerging market status is likely to drive greater activity in total return swaps on the specific countries. Liquidity in the country specific TRS market has shown signs of growth prior to the announcement from MSCI on Wednesday, which structurers say will lead to greater accessibility and tighter spreads in UAE and Qatar as it develops further.
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Some swap execution facilities could face closure as they struggle to attract liquidity and trading volumes. Market participants are beginning to question what needs to occur for SEFs to survive in the new and evolving derivatives market structure, report Beth Shah and Daniel O’Leary.
