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Investors should consider volatility swaps should the correlation between euro/sterling and sterling/dollar turn positive, therefore widening the volatility spread between the two currency pairs. Sterling/dollar has recently been skewed to the upside, while euro/sterling has dropped since Bank of England governor Mark Carney threatened to hike interest rates earlier than the market expected; meaning the correlation between the two currency pairs has been strongly negative.
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India’s equity markets will be hit by a flood of placements by state-owned enterprises after the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said on June 19 that all listed companies in India need to have a minimum public float of 25%.
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The Bank of England’s Andy Haldane has called for a UK credit register to be established to improve SME funding conditions in Britain. This will open the market to trade credit companies, insurance companies and pension funds, as well as improving the attractiveness of the securitization market.
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch is planning a push up the euro supranational, sovereign and agency league table, a business line many institutions are cutting as they argue that it barely turns a profit.
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Citi's Asia debt capital markets team has always taken great pains to stress it is no mere volume shop that favours market share over profitability. But you could be forgiven for thinking the bank has thrown such objections out of the window this year. For the first six months of 2014 Citi has been vying with HSBC for the top spot in the G3 Asia Pacific ex Japan DCM league table.
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Record second quarter issuance has helped G3 DCM volumes break the $100bn barrier already this year, leading banks to generate their highest quarterly fees in three years. But equity volumes dipped slightly, despite technology issuance almost tripling.