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Retail investors and asset managers have been shorting volatility via exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded notes, building up a short position of more than $135m in vega, the highest short net position in ETFs and ETNs to date. That is a potential source of instability. -
Trad-X, the interest rate swaps trading platform run by Tradition, has reached record trading volumes for dollar IRS, with volumes exceeding $1 trillion since their launch and the number of trades executed hitting 25,000.
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The Hong Kong Monetary Authority will be streamlining its debt issuance for next year as it looks to minimise overlapping maturities for bonds issued under its Exchange Fund Bills and Notes (EFBN) and the Hong Kong Government Bonds (GB) programmes.
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Overall credit default swap notional that was reported to swap data repositories last week increased by 48% from the previous week, according to data from the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. Overall interest rate derivatives trading that was reported was also up by 54% from the previous week, following a week of moderate decreases in trading for both CDS and rates.
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Javelin, a swaps execution facility, has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for a reduction of the liquidation time required for market agreed coupon swaps and international money market swaps that are cleared on SEFs in an effort to promote better liquidity and higher competitive trading volumes.
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A lack of clarity over Canadian rules and regulatory oversight between provincial regulators has posed some challenges for derivative market participants. As Canada looks to fulfil components of the G20 reform mandate for OTC derivatives trading — including trade reporting, clearing and margin requirements — a lack of uniform compliance among participants and rulemaking differences between regulators pose hurdles for the market.
