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Hedge funds and asset managers are increasingly turning to short term options and short dated derivatives products as ways of maximising liquidity in an increasingly illiquid market, according to TABB Group. -
In this round-up, Société Générale opens Shanghai Free Trade Zone sub-branch, CSOP launches an RQFII government bond ETF, and China Construction Bank is likely to be next European RMB clearing bank.
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The recent move by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to lower interest rates is likely to trigger an increase in bond issuance in India’s sluggish domestic corporate bond market, say market watchers. However regulators will need to act a number of reforms if they want to truly activate the bond market.
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While financial assets are off to the races following Thursday’s announcement of €60bn a month in eurozone quantitative easing, the banking system still needs growth to take off. The bond buying programme could hurt European banks by squashing the yield curve, and leave investment banks becalmed by low rates for longer.
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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.
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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.
