Derivs - Equity

The European Securities and Markets Authority has agreed on the final rules for the risk management and calculation of global exposures for structured UCITS funds.

BMO Capital Markets recently sold USD2.5 million notional of reverse exchangeable notes linked to a technology licensing company and a coal corporation, both based in the U.S., as part of a larger build-out of the structured products group the firm has been working on over the last several months.

Banks operating in Asia are likely to suffer from the fragmented approach to derivatives reforms taken by countries in the region.

Swap execution facilities overwhelmingly are viewed as improving the derivatives trading market, according to a Tabb Group.

European pension schemes may be exempt from derivatives regulations just as corporations will be, according to Kay Swinburne, member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Republican members of the House of Representatives plan to introduce legislation that would delay the deadline for regulations from July until December 2012.

Hal Scott, director of think tank Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, has called on the U.S. and European Union to better coordinate their respective proposed regulations for derivatives.

The Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions to play a more active role in the oversight of the commodity derivatives market.

Accumulators now account for about 30% of all private banking structured products sales in Hong Kong, according to one equity derivatives official in Hong Kong, based off numbers he’s seen within his own firm.

UBS plans to unify its structured products business in a new group within equities after its acquisition of Luxembourg-headquartered structured products boutique Luxembourg Financial Group.

Collateral Costs For OTC Trades To Riseof whether collateral is posted as a result of new regulations adopted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, according to Finadium.

Ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and China meeting at a summit in China said strict derivatives regulations are needs to deal with volatile commodity prices that could threaten financial stability.