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Investors have been looking at buying call spreads on the Euro Stoxx 50, funded with out-of-the-money put spreads based on high volatility and expectations of quantitative easing announcements at the European Central Bank meeting on January 22. -
Overall interest rate derivatives trading that was reported to swap data repositories last week increased by 14% from the previous week, according to data from the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.
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BGC Partners has retaliated once more within hours of CME Group announcing an increased two-tier, front end-loaded tender offer for GFI Group at $5.85 per share, with the interdealer broker offering a fully financed, all-cash tender offer of $6.10 per share.
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CLS Group and TriOptima have teamed up to offer an FX forward compression service in order to address the regulatory requirement for financial counterparties to have procedures in place to analyse the possibility of portfolio compression for non-centrally cleared over-the-counter derivatives.
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CME Group has once again increased its two-tier, front end-loaded tender offer for GFI Group to $5.85 per share, matching BGC Partners’ contingent $5.85 per share all-cash offer announced on 15 January. This price escalation represents the newest development in a nearly eight month bidding war for the firm, and nearly a $0.40 per share escalation since 15 January.
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Société Générale said on Monday that it would split the roles of chief executive and chairman. Frédéric Oudéa will drop the chairman role but stay on as CEO, while veteran central banker Lorenzo Bini Smaghi will join as chairman of the board.
