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Hedge funds are buying payers in iTraxx Main with expiries in May or June and strikes around 90-and-95 basis points. The trade is designed to hedge against a potential widening of spreads in June. -
Société Générale has finalised the acquisition of Newedge, buying out Credit Agricole’s 50% stake and bringing SG's ownership to 100%. SG has also sold 5% of the capital of Amundi to Credit Agricole as part of the deal, bringing SG’s stake in Amundi down to 20%.
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Vishnu Kurella, a portfolio manager focused on volatility trading at BlueMountain Capital Management in New York, has left the firm to join Caxton Associates in a similar role, also in New York.
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Speed has always been a defining feature of the trading process, especially across the very liquid equities and fx markets. Moving from the open cry through to the information age and high-speed computing, the quicker an order could be placed and the faster information could be gathered, the more competitive advantage a firm could gain over its rivals. As the new millennium kicked off, vast sums were being bought and sold in milliseconds, and an interminable arms race seemed to have become an industry staple, with trading firms racing towards zero latency.
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China Credit BGC Money Broking Company, a joint venture between BGC Partners and China Credit Trust, has been given a license to broker fx options to the interbank market by the country’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange.
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Weekly options expirations in Q1 2014 grew 56% over Q1 2013, with 248 million contracts traded. The increase was part of a wider rise in listed US options trading volume, which saw the market grow 10% in Q1 2014, according to a TABB Group report released Tuesday.
