Subject: Rates hustle, vol selling kerfuffle, and the CFTC shuffle

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Markets
Playing the yield: rates rev up structured products
Higher government bond yields and steeper forward curves fuel demand for new range of fixed income structures
10 Dec 2025   |  Feature
Investing
The options experts who think vol selling is a broken trade
Some say the equity volatility risk premium has vanished, others say it comes and goes
20 Nov 2025   |  Feature
Regulation
Who is Selig? CFTC pick is smart and social, but some say too green
Colleagues praise crypto smarts and collegial style, but views on prediction markets and funding trouble Senate
04 Dec 2025   |  Profile
Markets
Dutch pensions weigh hedge unwinds ahead of transition
As January 1 nears, Dutch pension funds consider unwind timing to avoid rush to the exit in thin year-end liquidity
11 Dec 2025   |  News
Regulation
CCPs trade blows over EU’s new open access push
Cboe Clear wants more interoperability; Euronext says ‘not with us’
08 Dec 2025   |  Feature
STAT OF THE WEEK

JP Morgan attracts bigger add-on from Fed’s G-Sib scoring

US banking giant JP Morgan has picked up a 2.5-percentage-point systemic add-on from its domestic regulator, marking a widening chasm with the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s own approach for scoring global systemically important banks, or G-Sibs.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Trend followers search for answers after a year to forget

“Bad periods for trend occur. And they can last for quite a while. But that’s not to say that you cannot make trend better. You can’t change the weather. But you can make your vessel more seaworthy” – Doug Greenig, Florin Court Capital.

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