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The Dow Jones CDX single tranche templates, first issued in July, have been updated in response to the rapid evolution of the credit index trading mart.
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A jump in correlation of European equities last week had traders responsible for hedging structured equity products scrambling to buy correlation.
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The price volatility of credit protection on General Motors Acceptance Corporation and Ford Motor Credit last week sparked trading of record volumes in index credit-default swaps. -
HSBC is preparing to launch a structured credit derivatives operation in Tokyo next month as part of a major push into the market.
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Derivatives professionals in India expect a domestic interest rate options market to take off by the end of the year.
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The increase in last Wednesday's Consumer Price Index data sparked a jump in demand for short-dated U.S. dollar puts and euro calls.
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ING Financial Markets began marketing its second equity-linked note to retail investors in Hong Kong last week, after making its debut in this hotly-contested market early this year (DW, 1/24).
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A new draft of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association's hedge fund-linked derivatives definitions begins to address what constitutes a fund event.
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IXIS Capital Markets has hired Michael Trenk, v.p. in JPMorgan's structured alternative investments group in New York, as a director and senior trader in structured alternative investment risk.
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National Australia Bank will reopen FX options trading next month, a year after a high-profile trading scandal forced it to close this business.
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The U.K. Takeover Panel will call for derivatives houses' proprietary desks and hedge funds to disclose synthetic long positions of more than 1% in U.K. corporates.
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Mercury may be the next big environmental derivatives market because of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations that will launch a cap-and-trade program to cut emissions from coal-based power plants.
