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Lifetime achievement award: Leo Melamed
If a roll call had been taken at the lectures given by the economist Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago in 1970, it would have shown that, among the 30 to 40 people in the building’s small,...
As 2012 drew to a close, Goldman Sachs was involved in the first trades using the new standardised credit support annex (CSA), a document that had been in the works for two years. That was entirely appropriate....
In some ways, the past 12 months were easier for foreign exchange dealers than 2011, which saw the imposition of a Swiss franc peg, severe volatility in the Brazilian real, the nerve-shredding US debt...
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Equity derivatives house of the year: Société Générale
It’s no surprise to find that Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) was involved in a large, long-dated equity repo transaction with a US bank last year. What is more surprising is that the French bank was the counterparty lending...
OTC client clearing service of the year: Citi
It’s a nasty case of divided loyalties. On the one hand, clearing rules for over-the-counter derivatives create a new business – thousands of derivatives market participants will be relying on a couple of dozen member firms to provide them with access...
Credit derivatives house of the year: Credit Suisse
Any hedge fund would be delighted with a near-50% return on equity. For the credit business of a Swiss bank, it’s not just an excellent result – in pure revenue terms, the best of Credit Suisse’s six fixed-income subdivisions last year – but also...
Energy/commodity derivatives house of the year: Deutsche Bank
The middle of 2012 saw a tremendous spike in demand for gold, silver and bronze – fierce competition for these assets saw records toppling in dramatic style in the space of just a few weeks. But that’s typically what happens at the Olympics. In contrast,...
Inflation derivatives house of the year: Royal Bank of Scotland
As 2012 drew to a close, UBS became the second bank to settle a Libor interest rate-rigging investigation, for a sum of roughly $1.5 billion. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is expected to follow shortly, which will inevitably affect the way the bank’s...
Structured products house of the year: Goldman Sachs
Assuming no change at the Federal Reserve’s month-end rate-setting meeting, February will be the fiftieth straight month in which the central bank has held its target rate at 0%. That’s a continuing headache for investors, which has been intensified...
Hedge fund derivatives house of the year: Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank’s global fund derivatives (GFD) business has a new home. Previously housed in the corporate banking and securities division, GFD was last year combined with seven other business lines from the private wealth management and asset management...
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