Asia exotics desks eye forward vol as corridor variance wilts

Narayanan Somasundaram
03 Oct 2019

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With demand for one of the primary hedging instruments for Asian exotics desks abating, dealers are turning to an alternative in a bid to reduce risk in their structured products books.

Volumes of so-called corridor variance swaps, which allow dealers to pass to investors large volatility risks built up by their structured products desks, were running at just a third of 2018 levels by the end of the first quarter, according to data from Societe Generale.

Desks are resorting to forward

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