Dr Vladimir Tikhomirov, Chief Economist at BCS Financial Group comments on the rouble’s recent fall to a new low… Hopes that the Minsk summit and the first direct talks between the Russian and Ukrainian presidents would open the way for
The leading Asian economies have been quite active in their quest for more centralised clearing in the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets. Japan and Singapore have taken the lead in setting up clearinghouses to deal with OTC derivatives such as credit
Total volume in equity derivatives futures and options registered through NYSE Liffe’s Bclear OTC wholesale service has passed the 500 million milestone.
The division of swap dealer and intermediary oversight (DSIO) of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an advisory on the applicability of transaction-level requirements in certain cross-border situations. The DSIO was responding to an inquiry from swap market
A new book by Stéphane Crépey, Tomasz R. Bielecki and Damiano Brigo offers a fresh take on mitigation of counterparty risk, a key problem of the 2008 global credit crisis and current European sovereign debt crisis. Counterparty Risk and Funding:
Pershing has made enhancements to its PrimeConnect application, including adding a link to Pershing's Fully Paid Securities Lending programme. The new connection to Pershing's Fully Paid Securities Lending programme allows hedge funds, through a fully automated solution, to transfer fully
Matt Roux is join UBS Investment Bank’s prime brokerage group in September from Deutsche Bank as an executive director and co-head of US securities lending alongside Mike Kelleher, who has
Volante Technologies, a provider of solutions aimed at simplifying the complexity of financial data integration, has expanded its operations in EMEA, US and Mexico with the addition of new key hires. John Burgos joins Volante Technologies in New
Omgeo’s Central Trade Manager (Omgeo CTM) community has increased by 33 per cent in 2013, with the addition of over 150 broker/dealers and 280 investment managers. More than 1,700 clients globally are now using Omgeo CTM, a central matching platform
The London Metal Exchange has begun publishing live forward prices for all metals traded in the last Ring session of the day (the afternoon “Kerb”), a refinement that will add further transparency to the procedures used to establish the Closing
