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A mix of hedge funds and credit valuation adjustment desks are buying deep out-of-the-money payers with April expiries on the iTraxx Main and to a lesser extent the Crossover indices in what was a fairly active week in credit options. Flows skewed towards long volatility and hedging strategies. -
The China Financial Futures Exchange plans to introduce a China volatility index and launch futures and options trading on it once the bourse completes the introduction of CSI 300 options later this year.
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Blythe Masters, head of the global commodities group and CIB regulatory affairs at JPMorgan in New York, is to leave the firm after 27 years. Masters is widely regarded by market participants as one of the leading figures active in the development of the credit derivatives market in the 1990s.
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Investors have been buying short-dated calls on the US dollar against the Japanese yen in the current low volatility environment. There has also been demand for longer-dated risk reversals in the currency pair.
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Investors globally have been selling volatility on Latin American currency pairs in order to generate premium following a recovery in the region's currencies. Such trades are standing out in what has been a quiet week in fx options due to record low levels of volatility.
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New credit default swap definitions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association last month could lead to the creation of a bifurcated market when they become effective from September, according to market participants.
