Derivs - Equity
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Florence Ip, head of warrants trading at BNP Paribas in Hong Kong left the firm this week, according to an official.
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Vikesh Kotecha, Asia head of derivatives trading at Nomura, has left the bank after only taking on the role approximately nine months ago.
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Barclays Capital has hired Marie-Laure Chandumont as a director in investor solutions focusing on cross-asset structures for insurance companies, a new position.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating how registered funds make alternative investment decisions.
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Goldman Sachs is offering its first deep barrier reverse convertible notes that feature a quanto embedded currency option.
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JPMorgan has issued a slew of principal-protected notes and certificates of deposit, delta-one notes, and bespoke products on its rules-based Alternative Index Multi-Strategy 5 in recent weeks.
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Standard Chartered Hong Kong warrants traded for the first time on Friday with the firm launching two European cash settled call warrants with China Life Insurance and HSBC as the respective underlyings.
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has given firms an extra hour to process and submit certain instructions on exercising standardized options on the last business day before they expire.
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The move to central clearing could spark the long tail risk hedging market.
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Royal Bank of Scotland has hired Marcile Moulene as an equity derivatives strategist, reporting to Kevin Chang, head of equity derivatives strategy for Asia Pacific, a new role for the firm.
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The move to central clearing could spark the long tail risk hedging market.
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The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is seeking comments from market participants in Hong Kong regarding the index calculation methodology designed to work with the proposed launch of a volatility index on the Hang Seng Index.