Derivs - People and Markets
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Macquarie Group is said to be reducing the size of its equity derivatives operations in Hong Kong with the elimination of seven jobs.
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CBOE Holdings has named Edward Tilly as president and coo of Chicago Board Options Exchange and C2 Options Exchange, effective immediately.
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Andrew Song, a senior equity derivatives trader at Barclays Capital in London, has left the firm less than eight months since joining. -
The Securities and Exchange Commission appointed two senior staffers to its Division of Trading and Markets earlier this month.
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BNP Paribas has hired Deron Goodwin in a new role as managing director in corporate fx sales in New York.
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Credit Suisse announced that it is reducing the size of its investment banking business as well as eliminating some 1,500 jobs as it moves to preserve capital in the face of tougher regulations.
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JPMorgan Chase has named separate heads of new global equity and debt capital market teams in a major revamp of its capital-markets management.
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Macquarie Group has named Tim Bishop as global head of Macquarie Capital and Michael McLaughlin as president of Macquarie Capital (USA).
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Some EUR2 billion (USD2.8 billion) was withdrawn from European synthetic exchange-traded funds in the third quarter, the most since Deutsche Bank began keeping records of the activity two years ago.
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Stephen Jen, a top fx strategist, has launched SLJ Macro Partners, a London-based hedge fund that will focus on trading currencies, but will also use volatility-reducing investments in commodities, equities and fixed income. Click here to read the story from The Financial Times
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. has applied to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to operate a swaps data repository (SDR) across multiple over-the-counter derivatives asset classes.
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MF Global is said to be under investigation by federal regulators over millions of dollars of investors’ money, the revelation of which is believed to have sunk a deal aimed at selling part of the firm to a competitor over the weekend.
