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FX options business booming

Banks are expanding FX options teams in London and Asia in response to increased interest in derivatives from clients, officials told RiskNews’ sister publication FX Week .

UBS hires Asian credit trader

UBS Warburg has bolstered its Asian credit derivatives team, with the appointment of Anders Haagan as director of credit derivatives trading in Singapore.

Deutsche Postbank ramps-up FX trading

German savings bank Deutsche Postbank is to add seven more foreign exchange traders to its new trading floor in Frankfurt, a spokesperson told RiskNews’ sister publication FX Week . When completed, the expansion - which started with the relocation of its…

Deutsche appoints head of relative value group in Americas

Deutsche Bank has appointed Erik Falk as head of its global markets division’s Relative Value group sales team, covering all credit products including cash bonds and credit derivatives. The group targets institutional clients including reinsurance…

The credit risk time bomb

Insurers remain very keen to both guarantee and invest in credit derivatives products, but key regulators are about to release reports indicating that risk transfer between the insurance and banking sectors might not be such a good idea.

PHLX Rigs Database For Contingency

When its internally developed database began showing signs of strain from rising options volumes, the exchange sought a new disaster recovery solution. Its choice: an in-memory database.

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