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Limits on leverage
Dealers have rushed to hook up their foreign exchange platforms to e-brokers offering foreign exchange leverage services to Japanese consumers collectively known as ‘Mrs Watanabe’. But new rules threaten...
Charles Goodhart, Paul Mortimer-Lee, Lucrezia Reichlin and Gabriel Stein concur that dangers are greater from exiting too early than too late but warn that asset prices risk becoming over inflated
This month we focus on Europe and Japan. There are notable differences and similarities between the monthly performance of the regions’ respective benchmark indexes – the Nikkei 225 and the EuroStoxx...
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Japan moves towards carbon trading
Japan has taken a step towards its planned establishment of a domestic market for carbon trading, as part of a larger move towards setting up a full cap and trade scheme in the next few years. The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) and the Tokyo Commodity...
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BNP Paribas Securities (Japan) has received another rebuke from the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA), which has ordered a suspension of the French dealer’s activities in its global equities and commodity derivatives business between November...
Japan and Singapore move towards carbon trading
Japan and Singapore both announced steps towards establishing domestic markets for carbon trading this week.
Derivatives House of the year, Japan
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JGBis continue to climb as Japan extends buyback programme
Japan’s ministry of finance extends buyback programme to December as bonds improve
Best in Japan - HSBC
HSBC entered the Japanese structured products business as recently as 2008, but its range of top-drawer products has succeeded in capturing a significant chunk of the market despite the financial crisis and the damage caused by some banks mis-selling...
ETF Securities debuts commodity funds on Tokyo Stock Exchange
ETF Securities has launched a new platform in Japan for physically backed precious metal commodities exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Five funds began trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on August 24.
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