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The Americas derivatives community came together in New York to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements across the industry
The derivatives market gathered in London on Thursday night to celebrate its leading players
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Equity derivatives saw the bulk of people moves, with UniCredit hiring the ex-head of flow equity derivative sales at the Royal Bank of Scotland, while in Asia, Barclays lost its head of cash equities trading, program trading and delta one. -
—Jeff Robins, partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York, on recent guidance released by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission that expands the scope of the regulator’s crossborder reach. The guidance specifies that employees from non-U.S. firms based in the U.S. must comply with Dodd Frank, even if they are processing non-U.S. swaps.
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Bank Vontobel was planning to launch a customized version of its electronic structured products platform—deritrade—in Asia, with the aim of adding autocallable and equity-linked notes to its list of structured products in a bid to woo investors in the region.
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The European Commission has published a legislative proposal for a regulation on financial benchmarks. The proposed Regulation aims to address concerns about the integrity and accuracy of benchmarks by regulating administrators of benchmarks, contributors to benchmarks and benchmark users. The Regulation will also prohibit the use in the E.U. of unauthorised benchmarks, including benchmarks prepared by unregistered non-E.U. administrators from non-equivalent jurisdictions.
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Thanksgiving is not celebrated in Europe and Asia, but the holiday tends to have a calming effect on financial markets beyond North America.
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Amundi Asset Management is not trading subordinated credit default swaps until deliverability of subordinated bonds in a credit event is clarified, Hervé Boiral, head of European credit in Paris, told DW.
