Derivs - People and Markets

BlackRock has announced that its iShares Exchange Traded Funds unit has rolled out the iShares Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund, which it says the first index-based ETF to offer exposure to emerging markets corporate debt.

Standard Life Investments has appointed Richard House to head its new global emerging markets bond team.

SIFMA, American Bankers Association, the Financial Services Roundtable and the Clearing House have responded to a request for comment by the U.S. Commodity Futures Commission on its proposed Volcker Rule by calling for it to be reproposed.

Daiwa Capital Markets has hired George Skiadopolous to be its sole dept capital market representative for Australia and New Zealand.

Ehren Stenzler has resigned as co-head of U.S. mergers and acquisitions at UBS a day after Aryeh Bourkoff quit as head of investment banking for the Americas.

The Shanghai Clearing House’s has been quietly consulting a select group of China-based dealers about how to clear over-the-counter China onshore yuan interest rate swaps.

Kenneth Hon, managing director and head of equity derivatives trading for Asia ex-Japan at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong, is moving to Standard Chartered.

A number of equity derivative players have been moving positions recently:

Aryeh Bourkoff has resigned as UBS’ head of investment banking for the Americas to pursue other opportunities.

Mitsubishi UFJ has named Neil Arrowsmith as head of debt syndicate for Asia-Pacific ex-Japan.

Nasdaq OMX has revised how it lists fx options with the June 18 launch of PHLX Forex Options, which will switch from the pricing convention of existing fx options to strike prices that mirror fx rates.

Hedge fund manager John Paulson is buying credit default swaps after he told investors he was shorting European sovereign bonds.