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  • Banco Central Do Brasil is increasing its use of currency swaps to sell the US dollar in order to provide support to the Brazilian real. The central bank is using currency swaps as a tool to bring liquidity and stability to the country's currency.
  • Market participants have been active in trading options on the euro against the US dollar, playing the view that the currency pair will move lower. The highlight of the flow was one investor picking up a sizeable at-the-money straddle on the pair.
  • The US investment bank has earned its place at the top of Europe’s M&A rankings but faces rising competition from boutiques and threats from clients who are increasingly trying lure leading rainmakers away. David Rothnie reports.
  • Structures such as forward volatility agreements that capture lower volatility carry rolldown relative to outright short vol positions, but are protected from broad based moves in higher fx vols, are expected to gain traction in the continued low vol environment.
  • RBC Capital Markets has hired Andrew Graham and Neil Weatherall as managing directors in sterling rates trading. Graham will be head of sterling rates while Weatherall will be head of sterling inflation trading. Both will report to Alastair Hollingdale, head of European rates.
  • LCH-CME basis swaps, where one counterparty pays a fixed rate on a swap cleared on LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear versus receiving a fixed rate on a swap cleared by CME Clearing, and vice versa, are to grow in frequency as dealers seek to balance exposure between one or more central counterparties, writes Beth Shah.