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Malaysia’s CIMB Bank is scaling back its investment banking business in the Asia Pacific region as it seeks to reduce a ballooning cost base and cut operating costs by about 30% this year, just three years after it forked out £75m ($114m) to buy the Asian and Australian investment banking assets of the Royal Bank of Scotland. The plan saw it shutter its offices in Australia on Monday, in a bid to trim costs across its investment banking and equities franchise. -
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) have made changes to the regulations governing foreign investment in government and corporate bonds. The new rules are an attempt by India to encourage long term investment in the country, say bankers.
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Investors have been buying put options on the euro against the Danish krone following the Danish central bank’s decision to cut rates in a bid to defend the fixed exchange rate policy. This has emerged despite low volumes in options trading since the Swiss National Bank’s shock move last month to abandon the euro/Swiss franc peg.
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The Chicago Board Options Exchange is expanding trading hours for CBOE Volatility Index options and S&P 500 options, adding more than six hours of trading per day, five days a week.
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Investors are now actively trading the UBS delta-hedged short volatility strategic index launched last year that seeks to replicate a series of short S&P 500 options as market participants look to gain risk premium exposure.
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Market participants are showing substantial interest in structured products on the iBoxx Euro Contingent Convertible Index on the back of a surge in popularity of contingent convertible (CoCo) bonds. This comes after the European Central Bank’s decision to introduce quantitative easing last month.
