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The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) plans to offer multilateral compression services for its clearing members in the first half of 2015 following a rise in popularity of market agreed coupon swaps and increased competition for compression services. Multilateral offerings will complement the services CME currently offers and will provide its members with more independence for maintaining their portfolios, said CME executives. -
Commerzbank is opening a representative office in Abidjan, the economic hub of Ivory Coast, and has appointed Konrad Engber as head of the five person team. He had previously been Commerzbank’s representative in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Tripoli, Libya.
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Icap Information Services has launched the ICAP Bond Correlated Call US Treasury Index, which will allow participants to access exposure created through US interest rate increases using liquid futures contracts. The index was designed to capture gains realised through interest rate increases using US Treasury bonds and options on the bonds, which offer additional liquidity that traditional strategies lack, according to Icap.
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The European Commission has proposed a further two year exemption for pension funds from central clearing requirements for their over-the-counter derivatives transactions.
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Asset managers are increasingly trading products that are based on the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index on the back of a spike in volatility. According to UBS, asset managers are looking to the VIX as a tool for hedging, in addition to a product that they can trade in their clients’ portfolios.
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The UK Structured Products Association has introduced a new set of risk ratings to enable financial advisers to compare different structured products more easily and help select products that match their clients’ risk profiles more closely. Up until now, there has been no numeric risk value assigned to structured products.
