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Merrill Lynch and Axa close first French property swap
Merrill Lynch and Axa Real Estate Investment Managers have executed the first French property derivatives swap.
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Credit Suisse to retain Winterthur chief executive
Credit Suisse will appoint Leonhard Fischer as chief executive of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Chase Cooper looks into its crystal ball for 2007
Chase Cooper predicts regulatory problems and achievements in 2007
Evolution Markets enters biofuels market
Evolution Markets has launched brokerage and financial services for the US and global biofuels market.
Nymex to offer soft commodities
The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) has entered the soft commodity space with the launch of six new futures contracts on its ClearPort clearing and trading platform.
Isda releases US emissions annex to master agreement
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has published a US emissions allowance transaction annex to its master agreement, with an accompanying confirmation template.
NYSE-Euronext wins landslide shareholder approval
In a ballot held at a special meeting today, participating NYSE Group shareholders cast 99.7% of votes in favour of a merger with Euronext.
Statoil buys Hydro’s oil and gas assets
Norwegian companies Hydro and Statoil have agreed a merger of Hydro’s oil and gas activities with Statoil, creating the world’s largest offshore operator in an estimated $28billion deal.
globalCOAL settles with GFI in dispute over physical coal contract
Electronic trading platform globalCOAL has fended off another attempt by a major inter-dealer broker to use its products on their own screens, after reaching an agreement with GFI to prevent any use of its Standard Coal Trading Agreement (SCoTA) on its…
JP Morgan and Goldman restructure foreign exchange
JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs have made senior management changes to their foreign exchange divisions that will come into effect early next year.
JP Morgan launches implied volatility indexes
JP Morgan has launched indexes tracking the level of implied volatility in G7 and emerging-market economies.