Derivs - Equity

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has called on the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems and the International Organization of Securities Commissions to create and publish a list of Qualifying Central Counterparties or compliant regimes.

Private banking investors in Europe are buying structured products on the Vstoxx in an effort to increase yield in the current low interest rate market.

Regulators in Europe are making a greater effort in involving structured product industry associations in regulation and legislation, according to speakers at the 10th annual StructuredRetailProducts.com conference in London today.

Institutional investors are buying protection on the S&P 500 and exchange-traded funds, in addition to calls on the VIX, as concerns increase surrounding automatic spending cuts in the U.S. set to take effect next month.

Credit Suisse has launched a click n’ trade structured products platform in Switzerland, one of the largest structured products markets in the region.

Some market participants are refraining from doing business with counterparties in particular jurisdictions and some banks are shifting operations back to their domestic markets due to a lack of regulatory certainty and global harmonization.

Deutsche Bank expects a shift to electronic trading in Asia as has been seen in Europe and the U.S. in recent years.

The pension scheme for staff at minerals group Imerys is planning to investigate investing in derivatives once its ongoing asset/liability matching study concludes.

JPMorgan has launched two issuances of one-year stability notes in Switzerland that are linked to the Eurostoxx 50.

Giovanni De Bustis Figarola, an ex-senior equity derivatives trader at Nomura in London, has joined London-based interdealer broker Forte Securities as a director in a new role.

The European Securities and Markets Authority should clarify that the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive is not intended to apply to structured issues, according to the Joint Associations Committee on Retail Structured Products.

The Nikkei rally has triggered a slew of knock-out barriers in autocallable structured products, creating a normalization in skew and an increase in volatility as banks reduce their hedges on the index.