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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
Internal restrictions mean SSAs issue fewer CMS-linked notes
JP Morgan and Dutch pension fund PGGM transacted derivatives margin trade
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Emerging markets have endured a two-pronged assault in recent weeks. Concerns about quantitative easing tapering have driven U.S. Treasury yields higher and triggered outflows from EM funds, while fears that China could struggle to engineer a soft landing for its economy have made matters worse for countries dependent on Chinese demand. -
Hedge Fund CQS has tapped Greg Sadler, a financials trader in credit at Barclays in London, as a portfolio manager.
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Trudy Lee, managing director and head of fixed income markets at Credit Agricole in Singapore, has left the firm.
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Investors should look at using a short October 2013, March 2014 call calendar ratio strategy referencing the Nikkei 225 to take advantage of a potential inversion of the index’s volatility term structure, after it flattened earlier this week following flows in the short-end volatility.
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A new platform for trading over-the-counter interest rate derivatives in the U.S. has been launched by a team of former Wells Fargo employees. Derivative Path, based in Walnut Creek, California, has launched with a range of services including hedge structuring, trade execution, record retention and Dodd Frank compliance as well as risk management, operational, legal and accounting support.
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The iTraxx Main rose just six basis points to 107 bps yesterday reflecting temporarily improved liquidity in light of U.S. Senator John Kerry’s promise of military intervention over the use of chemical weapons in Syria. However, the widening is unlikely to continue, according to Juan Valencia, credit analyst at Société Generale in Paris. “This is more a case of poor liquidity and some players wanting to push the indices wider, so people take advantage of the risk aversion,” he said. Valencia also said that geopolitical tensions have historically not been great drivers of long term widening in European credit indices.
