Top Section/Ad
Top Section/Ad
Most recent
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
Internal restrictions mean SSAs issue fewer CMS-linked notes
JP Morgan and Dutch pension fund PGGM transacted derivatives margin trade
More articles/Ad
More articles/Ad
More articles
-
Obtaining high-quality assets to use as collateral may be destructive to the markets in which they are being used and they’ll be costly to get hold of, according to Michael Clarke, managing director at Goldman Sachs.
-
Market participants are likely to continue using streaming prices and request-for-quote when credit derivatives are mandated to be traded on swap execution facilities, as opposed to trading on a central limit order book, according to panelists at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s Annual North America Conference in New York on Thursday.
-
The market needs to ensure greater margin efficiency for buyside firms to produce returns for their clients, while the introduction of swap execution facilities is leaving buysiders with greater risk, according to Richard Prager, board member at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and head of global trading at BlackRock.
-
A European Court of Justice judge has opined that the European Securities and Markets Authority should not have the power to intervene in national law to prohibit short selling financial instruments in emergencies. The move has some raising the possibility that the E.U. short selling regulation, which includes the ban on naked sovereign credit default swaps, may be reworked.
-
BNP Paribas has restructured fixed income across four global product lines and three regions to address a growth in flow activities, an increase in electronic execution, wider access to debt capital markets and regulatory changes. -
LEONTEQ, formerly EFG Financial Products, has launched the first floating rate reverse convertible on long-term Swiss swap rates to retail investors in Switzerland. The firm has launched floating rate reverse convertibles on the CHF 20y swap, and is separately marketing the same structures on the CHF 30y swap and CHF 40y swap.
