Asia Risk/News
'Umbrella revolution' drives 33% spike in Hong Kong vol
Volatility spikes from 15 to 20 points after pro-democracy protests
Credit Suisse offloads $40bn global CDS portfolio
Similar sized deal involving Asia names set to follow
Low volatility boosts discrete knock-out sales Asia-wide
Target redemption forwards declining in popularity for macro reasons
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan to set up booking hubs in Asia
Bank of America and Citi likely to be in the second wave of banks
Copper premium swap launch due for Shanghai free trade zone
Shanghai Clearing House product launch a global first
Goldman Sachs bought $24 billion CDS portfolio from UBS
UBS in Australia sold off CDS portfolio in fixed income scale-back
Tarf crackdown forces Taiwan banks to offer alternatives
Target redemption forwards with capped loss structure set for launch
Parallels between cyber and financial contagion risk
Increasing interdependency and opacity of technology systems poses major risk
Duration mismatch still a concern for Asian insurers
Bond and derivative markets not deep or liquid enough
Singapore op risk charge many times greater than Solvency II
Increased capital charges for equity and credit spread risk are fine
China commodity finance costs spike after Qingdao fraud
Rising costs and delays in issuing letters of credit deterring SMEs
European banks stop clearing Korean won swaps at KRX
Fresh uncertainty over Esma's recognition of KRX's OTC clearing house
HSBC hires Liu in China product strategy role, and other recent job moves
Job changes in the derivatives, regulation and risk industry throughout Asia
Taiwan allows onshore trading of foreign derivatives
Authorities take further steps to bring $300bn of overseas traded securities onshore
Prime brokers set to increase revenues from stock connect
Market divided over whether long-only mangers can access China via the initiative
Taiwan fixing could fragment offshore renminbi liquidity
CNT fixing will be a boon for Taiwan’s derivatives market
Huge spike in China-related derivative and ETF volumes
China A50 futures and ETF inflows rise following HK Shanghai stock connect
Basis risk drives volumes onto Shanghai iron ore swap debut
SCH volumes one third of SGX's after two weeks of trading
Second Asia structured product multi-dealer platform to launch
Vontobel looks to replicate the success of its European platform in Asia
Thailand allows foreign currency structured product issuance
Revision one of several set to boost local market participation
Slow start to ASX Australian dollar OTC derivative clearing
Exchange CEO hopeful of gaining volumes
Taiwan insurers turn to foreign bonds after rule change
Relaxation of foreign asset classification drives increase in demand
China options market faces margin and settlement challenges
China exchange developing technique to reduce margin requirements
Market ready if CFTC mandates Aussie IRS clearing
Rumours in Australian market that US will expand its clearing mandate