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Market players were buying euro/sterling options last week to capture a rise in implied volatility sparked by choppy spot trading. -
Ian Reisner, a star performer in equity derivatives sales last year at Banc of America Securities, has left the firm's New York office to pursue a career in real estate development.
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Most structured products and derivative securities are not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission because they are targeted at sophisticated investors.
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Morley Fund Management has structured an investment product linked to a basket of its funds and chose UBS as the counterparty partly because of its high credit rating.
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Five-year credit default swap spreads on MCI widened last week to 95 basis points from about 75bps the previous week as the bidding war for the Ashburn, Va.-based telco took a new turn.
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--Dominique Blanchard, branch manager at Calyon in Tokyo, giving his reasons for hiring a veteran equity derivatives staffer from Nikko Citi.
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Efforts by U.K. regulator the Financial Services Authority to establish the U.K. as the jurisdiction of choice for fund-wrapped derivatives have yet to take off.
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Agence France Trésor led the European bond markets deep into uncharted territory this week with the stunning execution of a Eu6bn 50 year OAT, opening up a new outer reach of the maturity curve to investors hungry for duration.
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India's deputy central bank governor presents how India counters risks to financial stability
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Speech by Mr. Agustín Carstens Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
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Prepared by the IMF in cooperation with the World Bank
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UK Chancellor Gordon Brown's speech in Beijing, China
