Derivs - Equity
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GlobalCapital is pleased to reveal all the winners of its 2023 Americas Derivatives Awards
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As it integrates Deutsche Bank's prime brokerage business, BNP Paribas has announced that the head of the unit, Ashley Wilson, will be staying on as global head of prime services.
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Barclays has hired a senior trader from JP Morgan in New York to replace Naseer Al-Khudairi as head of electronic trading and digital strategy for its markets division.
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Barclays has appointed Anita Tanna as managing director and head of EMEA generalist and specialist cash sales in London, having hired her from Citi.
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MUFG is overhauling personnel and its business model to try to escape a cycle of low returns, writes David Rothnie.
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MSCI picks up Nick Mihic — Algomi co-founder Stuart Taylor joins MUFG — Vinod Vasan changes roles at UBS
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MSCI has hired Nick Mihic as head of client coverage for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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Société Générale said on Monday that planned "adjustments and optimisations" should lead to a net reduction of around 640 posts in France, as it changes its structured products business and mulls altering securities services too.
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Amid heavy options trading activity ahead of a US election that most market participants expect to be bitterly contested and drawn out, opportunities are opening up to play the short volatility position that had proven so popular before the pandemic.
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The International Swaps and Derivatives Association this week signalled its ambitions to unify documents for derivatives, securities financing transactions and repo markets.
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Greater ESG sophistication is coming to the listed derivatives market, with Eurex Exchange announcing on Wednesday that it intends to launch new contracts that apply a new methodology for ESG exposure.
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The ESG derivatives market expanded further this week, as Cboe Global Markets opened trading for its new S&P 500 ESG index options.
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ESG derivatives have been on the development fast track this year as product creation has swept from equity referencing contracts through to other asset classes. Ross Lancaster reports on the next steps the market must take to reach maturity.
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The violent sell-off across financial markets this spring turned many investors’ positions upside down. Those without proper hedges in place were at best left embarrassed and at worst forced to shut up shop. Despite central banks once again intervening, plenty are finding reason to be cautious. Ross Lancaster investigates what lessons, if any, market participants have learnt from the meltdown.
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GlobalCapital is delighted to announce the winners of its 2020 Global Derivatives Awards.
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The European Commission on Tuesday gave the derivatives clearing industry a lifeline by granting an 18 month equivalence decision that will allow European firms to keep using UK central counterparties.
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A push towards harmonising data and reporting standards in ESG finance is gaining momentum and is a much-needed move in the development of the market. This was the message from panellists at GlobalCapital’s Sustainable and Responsible Investment Capital Markets Virtual Forum this week.
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High-frequency traders have fiercely resisted efforts by derivatives exchanges to bring in delaying measures, such as speed bumps, to their venues. But at Eurex, one such passive liquidity programme (PLP) is proving its critics wrong.
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Since the Covid-19 crisis began, inflows to funds that use derivatives to offer protection against market drops have spiked as investors look for greater certainty in their returns.
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Barclays has appointed Todd Sandoz and Paul Leech as permanent co-heads of global equities.
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Traders across asset classes are beginning to position in size as the US presidential election approaches, with an expected tight run-off making it very hard to time the market.
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Derivatives counterparties breathed easy in March when the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the International Organisation of Securities Commissions announced a year’s delay in the introduction of initial margin rules. But in Europe — with the deadline already passed — legal confirmation has still not appeared.
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has said that making sure staff could work remotely hindered the ability of financial firms to work on regulatory and IT projects, in a final report calling for the implementation of a set of rules on settlement discipline — including on mandatory buy-ins — to be delayed until 2022.
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Klaus Löber has been selected by the European Securities and Markets Authority as chair of its CCP supervisory committee. ESMA has also picked two other members; all three will be assessed by the European Parliament.