Subject: Microsoft outage disrupts structured notes trading

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Microsoft outage disrupts structured notes trading
Document-heavy OTC trades upended as term sheets and confirmations languished in outboxes
13 Nov 2026   |  News
Markets
Dealers call on China regulator to approve Isda Simm
Isda is asking NFRA to approve SIMM as “an industry model”
12 Nov 2026   |  News
Markets
Tech firms continue surge in FX hedging
Apple and Micron lift FX notionals by more than 60% in Q3, while Alphabet and others deploy debt for net investment hedges
12 Nov 2026   |  News
Markets
What Goldman’s commodities head learned from Iran war
Talking Heads 2026: As prices jumped, market hedges faltered and physical delivery became all important
12 Nov 2026   |  Profile
Markets
Future of settlement is taking shape – so are some big questions
Cash or coins? How to tackle loss of netting? What about CBDCs? Market has a lot to decide in settlement revamp
10 Nov 2026   |  Feature
Markets
Dispersion trades weather AI selloff, for now
Gamma-weighted versions of the popular trade gained almost 7% as single-stock volatility surged
06 Nov 2026   |  News
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BofA names co-heads for new credit macro trading unit
Reshuffle comes after macro and systematic trading head Derek Hafer jumped to RBC
05 Nov 2026   |  News
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‘Think like a farmer’: how Transtrend rode out the Hormuz shock
Talking Heads 2026: Transtrend’s Toni Budimir on shifting correlations, staying diversified – and knowing when to stop calculating
05 Nov 2026   |  Profile
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BRL options traders count cost of Lula shock
One-way Bolsonaro bets forced dealers into tough hedging choices as USD/BRL gapped 13% on Lula’s victory
04 Nov 2026   |  News
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Beyond settlement: LSEG’s Dish eyes funding boom
Stablecoin-sceptic, blockchain-agnostic service touts new world of intraday repo and foreign exchange
04 Nov 2026   |  Profile

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