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Push, ping or hub: industry tackles risk of clearing fails
An industry working group is about to publish principles on how to ensure swaps that are subject to a clearing mandate can be guaranteed to clear. But that masks sharp divisions within the industry over...
The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive creates a new type of trading venue for the execution of over-the-counter derivatives and, as things stand, dealers’ existing platforms do not qualify....
With trading of cleared OTC products set to migrate to a profusion of new platforms, dealers are planning to act as liquidity aggregators - and UBS has already taken a step in that direction. By Ramya...
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'Clients, products and business practices’ the biggest op risk type...
SAS Software tracks biggest op risk events in March, while the ABA Operational Loss Data Sharing Consortium looks at the main types of op risk occurring in Q3 2011
People: Royal Bank of Scotland lets Stuff go
David Stuff, director in UK sales leaves RBS in redundancy round; Nomura names new head of forex structuring; Morgan Stanley says goodbye to head of structured product marketing; Steven Phan joins Standard Chartered as head of structured equity in Hong...
Alpha commodity indexes: a sustainable source of absolute returns?
Investor interest in alpha commodity index products has surged over the past year and banks are hard at work creating more of them. Can these exotic new instruments really provide a sustainable source of absolute return? And is the market getting too...
UBS offers nine-month play on Apple
UBS is offering US investors a nine-month structured product based on Apple that has a chunky, 8.56% coupon, which comes as a result of a relatively high, 90% barrier. The investment fits the bill for those willing to risk loss to capital.
Banks offer short-term plays on natural resources
Royal Bank of Canada leads the offering of short-maturity structured products in the US public market with 12 products, half of which have maturities of just three months
Holiday appetite forms the basis for latest JP Morgan and UBS products...
JP Morgan and UBS both filed products linked to seasonal underlyings with the SEC on April 19
Slater to join Standard Chartered as group head of operational risk
Peter Slater leaving CLS to take up op risk role at Standard Chartered
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