Derivs - Equity

JPMorgan has sold just over USD10 million worth of notes linked to the S&P 500 utilizing a relatively exotic structure for the U.S. structured products market, a dual directional note with a cap on the upside and a knock-out barrier on the downside.

The European Securities and Markets Authority could still miss the end of September deadline for issuing technical standards for the European Market Infrastructure Regulation.

Standard Chartered is finalizing plans to launch a commodity trading unit in China. The launch will allow the firm to offer a greater number of hedging products as well as other additional services.

European antitrust regulators are investigating Libor-based interest rate derivatives and are looking at whether companies have breached E.U. cartel rules.

Eurex is to expand its dividend derivatives offering by launching ten new dividend futures on March 2.

Dealers could start offering options on futures on the HSI Volatility Index by the end of the year, according to market officials.

Roughly 65% of equity fund managers expect returns of more than 5% this year, while only 7% of their fixed-income peers project the same, according to a survey by Aviva Investors.

Allocations in equities appeared back in favor in February as 26% of assets allocators surveyed are overweight in the sector, compared with 12% the preceding month, according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch survey.

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Deutsche Bank has unveiled a research product in the U.S. focused on comparing sector implied volatilities and option pricing dislocations in equity markets.

Would you heed financial advice from former-U.S. President George W. Bush? Hong Kong’s Enhanced Investment Products at a press reception Wednesday recruited ‘Bush’ to launch its first program of synthetic swap-based equity derivative exchange-traded funds on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Enhanced Investment Products launched seven equity derivative exchange-traded funds Wednesday in Hong Kong.