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Last week we highlighted the positive performance of the mining sector with the Euromoney Global Mining Index returning +8.55% in October. Certainly not a bad start to the fourth quarter. Platinum producer Lonmin, who has been in the Euromoney Global Mining Index since 1985, topped the companies’ performance league table. That could be a bit misleading.

For the OTC derivatives industry, joining forces is the only way to prepare for a rising tide of regulation. Only a combined industry initiative can drive the transformation in fluidity that will be needed when new regulations place collateral at the centre of every OTC derivatives trade. Unprecedented regulation is leading to unprecedented collaboration.

The Euromoney Smaller European Companies Index Series currently comprises 1350 companies across 16 European countries.

The Euromoney EMIX Europe Index currently comprises 637 companies across 16 European countries, including the largest 350 stocks and the most liquid 35% of the smaller company universe.

How collateral’s rise will profoundly impact markets

The number of onshore corporate defaults in China during 2015 has already exceeded the total for last year. The recent trend has broken the myth of the “automatic bailout” in China’s onshore market which had led some investors to ignore credit fundamentals in the expectation that all debts would ultimately be underwritten by the state.