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  • Debt bankers are optimistic that January will be a robust month for issuance after the US Federal Reserve ended uncertainty about tapering by announcing that it will reduce monthly bond purchases next month for the first time since the global financial crisis.
  • Global systemically important financial institutions are hiring more risk management specialists familiar with counterparty risk management, clearinghouse frameworks and the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems of the Bank for International Settlements and the International Organization of Securities Commissions Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures in a bid to better access the robustness of CCPs.
  • Nomura has hired Mike Ward, the former head of equity sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as head of European equity sales in London.
  • Rules from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission that require derivatives to be traded on a swap execution facility have resulted in fragmented liquidity and decreased derivatives trading volumes, according to a survey conducted by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.
  • Strategists at BNP Paribas in New York are recommending investors buy payer spreads on the CDX IG and HY indices and June and March expiries to hedge for March or June, when potential debt ceiling issues could increase volatility and lead to wider spreads.
  • Hedge funds are considering entering innovative conditional dividend swaps on the Eurostoxx 50.