Derivs - Equity

EFG Financial Products has launched eight MSCI-linked multi-barrier reverse convertible structured products that feature partial barrier observations.

The U.K. Financial Services Authority is being pressed to not regulate structured product pricing by industry groups who argue there is no evidence to back intervention.

As the market returns to more normal trading after the holiday period, we look this week at the behavior of the major markets and analyze the potential positions in short term index options over the coming weeks.

Deutsche Bank has sold retail structured notes--primarily to high-net worth JPMorgan clients--that benefit from an upside in Asian equities through 2012, despite some macro strategists predicting China’s economy will slow.

Stability notes with an annual coupon to investors and protection against a daily predefined drop in an underlying have increasingly emerged in recent days as end users target a yield pick-up over a 12 month period.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has finalized rules to implement a legally segregated, operationally commingled clearing model in the cleared swaps market.

The Investment Company Institute is suggesting some modifications to a proposed Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service rule that would ease tax burdens for funds investing in derivatives.

A loan securitized in HSBC’s synthetic commercial mortgage-backed securitization Nemus 2006-1 has been prepaid.

At the start of this year, we consider the liquidity of the options market in Europe after numerous discussions have highlighted the apparent worsening of liquidity conditions.

Nomura is to hire Simon Wise, an equity derivatives trader at Credit Suisse in London, in a similar role also in London.

A head of equity derivative flow sales in New York is pitching calls on the SPDR Gold Trust exchange-traded fund, known as GLD, to gain exposure to cheap implied volatilities and take advantage of a flat skew.

Christiane Mandell, head of institutional sales across all asset classes and products for the Americas at Standard Chartered in New York, has left the firm.