A politically charged fight over position limits on commodity derivatives appears set to kick off after the European Commission opened a consultation on the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) this week.
The European Central Bank’s private sector working group on euro risk-free rates has recommended market participants replace Eonia products with €STR-referencing derivatives “as soon as possible” and flagged a threat to swaptions in the transition.
Ian Hunt, global head of sales at Quantile Technologies, has left the firm. This week the compression provider firm broke its own record in a euro rates run.
LCH’s credit derivatives arm, CDS Clear, has become the first central counterparty (CCP) clearing house to offer clearing of single-name subordinated financials credit default swaps (CDSs).
The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has hit record open interest in futures and options on oil and natural gas, as it also readies a data platform for oil markets.
Lloyds Bank has put credit sales head Bob Paterson at risk, a securitization specialist who had been leading sales on the bank’s risk transfer programmes.
HSBC’s new strategic plan involves numerous changes to its investment banking division, including shifting resources to Asia and the Middle East, reducing the scale of many operations in the European markets business, and combining product functions with commercial banking.
The European Commission has opened a public consultation on MiFIR/MiFID II, as it takes stock of two years of the sweeping regulations.
GlobalCapital is delighted to announce the nominees for this year’s Americas Derivatives awards.
GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Global Derivatives Awards. The winners were unveiled at a gala dinner at the Banking Hall in London on Wednesday night.
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