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The lack of regulatory clarity surrounding the process for frontloading of cleared trades is irking market participants after NASDAQ OMX became the first clearinghouse approved under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation. According to lawyers, market participants are unsure which classes of derivatives traded since March 18 will need to be frontloaded. -
Hedge funds are selling puts on the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets exchange-traded fund (EEM) and country specific ETFs, such as the Market Vectors Russia ETF Fund (RSX), to position for upside in the underlyings.
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Chinese authorities and bourses are now looking to launch equity options trading on single stock and index underlyings sometime in the second half of the year. Stock options were originally slated for Q2 this year.
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore could waive certain requirements for interbank trade reporting of interest rate swaps and credit derivatives, or extend a confidentiality clause past Oct. 2014, ahead of the introduction of mandatory reporting next week.
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Last week saw a key micro event in credit markets, the semi-annual index roll, causing volumes on swap execution facilities to spike and hit new records in CDS index transactions.
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Contingent convertible bonds are trading slightly too cheap, according to strategists at Société Generale in Paris. The strategists have developed a pricing model that gives CoCos an average model price of 112, compared to a market price of 109.
