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It may have been one of the most telegraphed moves in central banking history, but on Thursday, European Central Bank president Mario Draghi finally gave the capital market punters what they wanted and dialled some big numbers. He has promised to “do whatever it takes” to save the euro since July 2012, but now, with the advent of sovereign quantitative easing he is at last walking the walk, to go with the talk. -
Sharon Bowen, from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, issued a statement on January 22 arguing that the retail FX market was the least regulated part of the derivatives industry, following the shock move on January 15 by the Swiss National Bank to abandon the Sfr1.20 euro/Swiss franc exchange rate peg. However, lawyers argue that retail FX is one of the most heavily regulated sectors, which may in fact be increasing risk.
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MarketAxess and BlackRock have brought their trading alliance to Europe, launching an all-to-all trading platform for Eurobonds.
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The financial world was keenly awaiting news of the European Central Bank’s bond buying programme as GlobalCapital Asia went to press on Thursday evening. But whether or not the outcome is enough to assuage markets, Asia’s bankers are not expecting it to have the same impact on the region as US quantitative easing did. Many think the effects will be confined to some unwelcome but short term volatility, write GlobalCapital Asia reporters.
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John Grace, ex-senior managing director at AIG, has joined the Options Clearing Corporation as executive vice president and chief risk officer.
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The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) has established a pre-funded $1bn committed repurchase facility with a leading pension fund in order to increase the central counterparty’s overall liquidity resources from $2bn to $3bn.
