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Hedge funds, fast money and real money are buying longer-term receivers on Senior Financials with strikes at 100 basis points, 95 bps and some 80 bps for technical reasons, including the desire to position ahead of new credit default swap definitions due in March. The Asset Quality Review due at the end of the year is also weighing on spreads, with equity underperforming Senior Financials as banks seek to reduce the size of their balance sheets.
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The Chicago Board Options Exchange has developed a new index calculated using S&P 500 options that expire six-to-nine months in the future.
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued a no-action letter providing relief to non-U.S. swap dealers from certain transaction-level requirements under the Commodity Exchange act.
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Asian markets should accelerate the development of credit derivatives, particularly in India and China, to promote the efficiency of financial systems and assist in the development of local Asian bond markets, according to the Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
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Retail structured product issuers in India are struggling with regulations in the country that have led to the minimum investment amount tripling, effectively shutting down the market.
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The Asia Pacific Regional Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions has written to Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for internal market and services in Brussels, warning that derivatives trading could dry up in Asia if central counterparties there are not granted a six-month extension to complete equivalence assessments that allow them to be recognized as qualifying CCPs under European Markets Infrastructure Regulation.