Derivs - People and Markets
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BNY Mellon is said to have decided against putting up its Alcentra unit for sale.
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BlueMountain Capital Management has named David Rubenstein ceo of its operations in Europe.
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Fx algorithms are expected to account for more than 25% of fx trade volume by the end of 2014—up from 7% as of Dec. 31, according to Aite Group.
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BlueMountain Capital Management has named David Rubenstein ceo of its operations in Europe.
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BNY Mellon is said to have decided against putting up its Alcentra unit for sale.
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The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has teamed up with S&P Indices to co-brand S&P’s existing credit default swap indices as S&P/ISDA CDS Indices.
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The North American Derivatives Exchange has released a daily Volatility Sentiment Index number for each of the key asset classes on which it bases its binary option contracts.
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The VStoxx Index, which tracks the cost of options protecting against losses on the Euro Stoxx 50 Index, rose 7.5% to 53.55 basis points, while the VIX closed 14.96 bps below that benchmark, for the widest gap between the two volatility indices since October 2008.
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InterncontinentalExchange is expected to name Ben Jackson, the coo of ICE Futures, to succeed Thomas Farley as president of the exchange later this year.
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UBS has appointed Paul Lambert as head of fx and fixed income at the bank’s operations in the U.K. as well as portfolio manager for its Currency Alpha Fund and other currency strategies.
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Rabobank International has hired Mark Yale, the ex-head of Latin America international structured sales at HSBC in New York, to expand its emerging market client derivatives business in the Americas.
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The next proposal for the definition of a swap dealer is likely to come by mid-October and Dodd-Frank rulemakings as a whole are aimed to be completed by the third quarter of 2012, according to Scott O’Malia, commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.