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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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Investors should buy receiver spreads 1x2 and ladders on the iTraxx Main, since such instruments offer a cheap or zero cost way to construct a bullish position ahead of an address by Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, at the Federal Open Market Committee on June 19. Bernanke is expected to announce that the Fed will begin tapering monetary policy in the U.S., leading some strategists to take a position on the iTraxx Main that will benefit in the event that the index tightens.
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The first South Korean synthetic exchange-traded funds will likely reference U.S. and Korean high yield bonds and real estate investment trusts when the market starts trading sometime this summer.
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Derivative product companies are structured financial entities that act as intermediaries for, or guarantors of, an affiliated entity under interest rate or fx derivatives with a non-affiliated counterparty.
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Barclays made the most senior hire of the week, appointing ex-Goldman Sachs trader Michael Winkelgrund as head of exchange-traded fund trading. Deutsche Bank, meanwhile, hired Monty Lee as a senior index options trader from Barclays. In Asia Pacific, Nicholas Smith has replaced PJ Andersson as global head of pan-Asian equity derivative and convertible sales at Citigroup, after the latter left the firm last week. -
—Harry Eddis, partner at Linklaters in London, on the contradiction in the needs of clearinghouses, clearing members and regulators.
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Tradeweb was planning to add single-name credit default swaps referencing investment-grade corporates on its electronic trading platform to boost trading volumes, but also reduce margin per transaction.
