Derivs - Equity

Chicago-based CME Group has signed a market data provision agreement with the China Financial Futures Exchange, that country’s sole derivatives-focused bourse.

TriOptima has completed the largest energy portfolio compression cycle to date, eliminating a notional outstanding value of $12.1bn.

Market participants may have been making the shift to adopting overnight indexed swap (OIS) discounting for swap portfolios since 2007, but this year the focus has shifted to include the challenges surrounding credit valuations and a whole host of other complications.

Risk across central counterparty clearing houses will be put under a microscope in an electronic guide to CCP rulebooks being created by FIA Global that is expected to launch in December.

The start of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect collaboration between the two cities’ exchanges will open a number of arbitrage and thematic trading opportunities, such as playing the different effects on the China A and H-share market.

Buy- and sellside firms with bilateral arrangements with exchanges may find time and resources are under pressure from the migration of Liffe UK derivative products to ICE Futures Europe, which started on Monday and will continue through to mid-November.

Roger Naylor and Robert Karofsky will become co-heads of UBS’s global equities business starting in 2015, and replacing Mike Stewart, who has been moved to the Swiss bank’s wealth management division.

Euronext is developing its service in the Netherlands through a new partnership with DEGRIO, an online broker based in the country, that will allow them to delegate communication through the broker to DEGIRO's retail investor end-users.

The annual Global Derivatives Awards from GlobalCapital Derivatives, the new Derivatives Week, took place on Thursday, September 18 at the Landmark Hotel in London. The awards honoured the people, companies and deals that made an impact on the global derivatives market over the last year. Winners in each of the award categories received their awards at a gala reception and dinner in London.

The annual Global Derivatives Awards from GlobalCapital Derivatives, the new Derivatives Week, took place on Thursday, September 18th at the Landmark Hotel in London. The awards honoured the people, companies and deals that made an impact on the global derivatives market during the last 12 months globally (May 2013-May 2014). Winners in each of the award categories received their awards at a Gala Reception and Dinner in London.

US investors aiming to play the eurozone recovery are increasingly looking at the Eurostoxx50 via structured products with so-called airbag features that provide a buffer against depreciation.

Insurance companies have been picking up hybrid structured products, combining both equity and interest rates, in a bid to gain better returns in the low volatility environment.