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  • Forwards and Futures trading will form a big part of a fund that Franklin Templeton Investment has launched, which focuses on long and short term exposure to global currencies in both developed and developing markets.
  • Stanislas Yassukovich’s Two Lives: A Social and Financial Memoir, in which he recounts his own life, as well as the lives of his father and the Eurobond market (of which he was a progenitor) might be a first of its kind. It is a bond man’s — and bond market’s — Bildungsroman, as well as a polemic against the state of banking and a klaxon sounding the end of capitalism as we know it.
  • There was both palpable relief and vexation among derivatives market professionals this week as the European Commission approved, albeit with amendments, rules for collecting margin on uncleared derivatives. Although this traversed a key hurdle as Europe seeks to catch up with Canada, Japan and the US, it also brought into question why there had been a delay in the first place.
  • The Republic of Namibia, which has outlined plans to issue around $5bn of loans and bonds over the next 10 years, is to undertake a non-deal roadshow with fixed income investors in the US and UK.
  • Numerous press articles in recent years have predicted the death of single name credit default swaps. Onerous capital requirements, costly changes in market structure and alternative hedging tools have all been cited as factors driving the inexorable decline in the product.
  • The UK government has lent its voice to the growing current of international opinion that expansive monetary policy has gone far enough, and may even be harming growth. Britain is set to embark on a fiscal stimulus, likely to be welcomed by financial markets.