THE TIPPING POINT
The over-the-counter commodities market is booming again with levels of trade are heading back to the peaks seen in 2008.This happy ship though is heading into choppy waters. Lawmakers and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have not forgiven and forgotte...
REDRAWING THE LINES
The hedge fund sector is edging back towards historic highs, according to HFMWeek’s latest Assets under Administration (AuA) Survey. The industry has climbed a massive 21% over the last 12 months to post a total AuA of nearly $2.7trn in April 2010. Fund admini...
DTCC’S ELECTRONIC TRADE REPORTING
From August 13th, financial regulators around the world will—for the first time—have a clear idea of both overall and individual levels of exposure in the equity derivatives market.
DANTE’S INFERNO
A legal battle involving the bankrupt Lehman Brothers’ estate will likely hamper efforts to revive international securitisation volumes until late next year in the wake of adverse rulings in the British and US courts. The diametrically opposed decisions of jud...
IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FX IT!
As an asset class, foreign exchange (FX) continues to make serious gains among institutional players, prompting banks to invest heavily in FX infrastructure in order to handle the pronounced growth. Things are going so well, in fact, that regulators continue t...
AMT TIME
With demand for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives and other esoteric products continuing to mount, asset managers will require much more consistent trade-cycle data, pricing standards and, above all, increased risk-management tools. For buy side desks on a li...
LIFE THROUGH A LENS?
Financial institutions are worried that regulators have failed to understand the impracticality of some of their proposals to clean-up the derivatives markets, and the fact that lawmakers are backing the proposals is prompting even more cause for concern. The ...
FROM DARK TO LIGHT
It appears that regulators continue to push for reform of the over the counter (OTC) derivatives market. In early February, European member of parliament, Werner Langen published a draft report on OTC derivatives reforms to be considered by the European Parli...
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
The market for global equity derivatives faces a testing period over the next few months. It will it have to adjust to exceptional levels of volatility as fears mount that the sovereign debt crisis (and attempts to control it) will jeopardise global economic ...
ON THE UPSIDE
All the signs are that South Korea’s relative position in the global economy will be even stronger as a result of the crisis. Of course, heavily tied into world trade, it had also been hit by the downturn, but the government’s prompt huge and growing stimulus ...
20:20 TERRY DUFFY
While some trace the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) story back to 2001 when the exchange took on corporation status, the real step up came in 2007 when it finally bought the Chicago Board of Trade and rapidly moved on to bring in NYMEX into its fold. “The C...
FUTURES PASS THE TEST
The extreme market volatility last autumn caused the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to reassess and, in most cases, raise margins on their contracts, but underlying risk models never faltered. Investors are on notice that if volatility spikes, the margins m...
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