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  • There has been no shortage of media coverage about the swaps market transformation, but with deadlines fast approaching the question of buyside preparedness is looming large.
  • Institutional investors are showing interest in emerging market fx structured notes that have barriers significantly higher than spot. According to structurers, barriers in some emerging market currency pairs are higher than spot has ever traded.
  • Foreign investors looking to access the offshore yuan liquidity are better served in the cross currency swap market than entering the nascent CNH HIBOR interest rate swap market, launched earlier in summer.
  • Standard Chartered is finding corporate takers for structured products that use the premium from selling fx options to participate in equity options—a novel play for that type of investor.
  • Institutional investors are scoping single stock options in Europe on the back of positive economic data and a spurt in merger and acquisition activity. The interest rebound comes after what equity derivatives traders describe as a lull in recent months.
  • Investors are trading credit default swaps instead of investment-grade bonds after bond prices and liquidity were hit by a sell-off in exchange-traded funds.