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Real money managers are buying out-of-the-money payers and payer spreads, sometimes funded by receivers, on the iTraxx Main and to a lesser extent on the Xover, as volatility edged higher and the payer smile steepened in both indices.
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Scott O’Malia, commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has called for the extraterritorial reach of U.S. derivative reforms to be scaled back in 2014 and for the U.S. to pursue a harmonized global framework of regulation through substituted compliance.
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The European Commission has fined Deutsche Bank, Société Générale, Royal Bank of Scotland, JPMorgan, Citigroup and RP Martin a combined total of EUR1.71 billion as part of an investigation into manipulation of the interest rate derivatives market. UBS avoided a fine of EUR2.5 billion, while Barclays avoided a fine of EUR690 million, as both received full immunity under the 2006 Leniency Notice for revealing the existence of the so-called cartel to the Commission. -
Australia’s financial services firms are not adequately investigating their client’s personal circumstances before recommending complex capital protected structured products, therefore not meeting guidance set under recent regulatory reforms, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
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Structurers are seeing a renewed appetite for structured products on the U.S. dollar against both the onshore and offshore Chinese yuan, playing the view that USD/CNY and USD/CNH will steadily decline.
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Congratulations are due to the banks and companies involved in last week’s Granvia and Greater Gabbard project bonds. They are helping to bring new capital into infrastructure finance. But the art of structuring these deals is to shield investors from nearly all risk. The real spadework in project finance is still being done by banks.
