Derivs - Equity

Nomura is considering launching a click ’n trade platform for structured products, an electronic interface that allows private banks and securities firms to input preferences for a structured product and get a price.

Regulators and industry officials should collaborate to create global identifiers for over-the-counter derivatives counterparties and an international product classification system, according to a consultative report by the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems and the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions.

Morgan Stanley strategists are recommending investors buy puts on the NIFTY and TWSE while selling a put on the KOSPI200 to take advantage of relative probabilities of the indices returning to 2008 price and valuation lows.

UBS has launched a non-capital protected retail equity-linked structured product program in Hong Kong. These

A few weeks ago, we commented on the “calm” nature of the sell-off, noting how volatility had not increased significantly as the market revisited the levels of 2009.

Pushing over-the-counter derivatives to exchanges or electronic trading will not automatically make them easier to regulate or make those markets more efficient, according to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and the Association for Financial Markets in Europe.

Swiss institutional investors have stepped up purchases of structured products linked to equity indices rather than single stocks over the past two to three weeks as volatility in the equity market has surged.

Julius Baer has launched a China Fund that will use index options and/or structured products to hedge H share exposure.

Cantor Fitzgerald’s newly launched exchange-traded fund arbitrage business will look to establish in-house synthetic ETF and over-the-counter option trading capabilities within the next year.

FM Capital Partners, the London-based hedge fund backed by the Libyan government’s sovereign wealth fund, has lost two senior equity derivative officials.

Ashurst has transferred London partner Chris Whiteley to Hong Kong as the branch’s only derivatives partner, according to a memo from the firm.

Macro-hedge funds have been picking up short term put spreads on the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index over the past week, taking a view equities have been oversold during recent political and economic crises in Europe and the U.S. and are soon to bounce back.