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Deutsche Bank is at real risk of failing to pay coupons on its additional tier one instruments, as a potential $14bn US RMBS settlement threatens to erase the bank's available distributable items (ADIs). Outstanding DB AT1 securities reacted accordingly last Friday, shooting nearly 200bp wider. -
The decision of buyside participants in credit and equity markets to remove near term hedges in favour of end-of-year trades has been called into question this week, with volatility picking up after the the summer lull and several potential catalysts for further upset looming next week.
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The Chicago Board Options Exchange plans to launch options trading on the FTSE Emerging Index next week, offering market participants exposure to the performance of large and mid-cap companies from advanced and secondary emerging markets.
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The European Union’s ‘State of the Union’ announcements on Wednesday promised more progress on Capital Markets Union, a project blown off course by the resignation of the commissioner in charge of the project, the UK’s Jonathan Hill, following the Brexit vote. Several of the early initiatives in the project are now bogged down in the European Parliament.
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Interest rate swap trading platform trueEX has set its sights on a narrowing pool of remaining dealers it has not signed up, as the addition of BNP Paribas this week took its market haul to 21.
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Several new avenues for commodities traders have opened up through the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, with trading in the first European Union wheat futures contracts beginning this week and an October rollout slated for the first exchange-traded precious metals spread and ratio futures contracts.
