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John Cusins, co-head of financial institutions derivatives marketing at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in London, has resigned.
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Variance swap plays in Hong Kong and Korea are taking off as global hedge funds use the instruments to place bets on rising volatility in the region.
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Dealers and hedge fund managers were scrambling to unwind short auto positions as DW went to press on Friday, following Standard & Poor's downgrade of General Motors Corp. and its related entities to junk status on Thursday.
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An additional tranche of quotas for China's 'A' share market is expected to hit the street in the coming months and will likely trigger a frenzy for synthetic exposure to the securities.
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Turf wars at firms with newly merged structuring desks are impeding the development of collateralized debt obligations referenced to equity-default swaps. -
Firms in Tokyo have started seeing a pickup in demand for rated first-to-default baskets as an alternative to synthetic collateralized debt obligations in the tight-spread market.
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Trading by FX players anticipating a revaluation of the Chinese renminbi has triggered a spike in options market volumes.
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Dealers and investors may return to vanilla credit structures if credit-default swaps continue to widen.
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U.S. pension funds are jumping into interest rate swaps this quarter.
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Two of the world's greatest private sector bond issuers, Ford Motor Co and General Motors, fell into the junk category this week, in a sudden downgrade by Standard & Poor's that will be remembered as a watershed in the capital markets.
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Pakistan hopes success in the international capital markets will help improve its image. Will it pay off? EM asks Ishrat Husain, Pakistan’s central bank governor
