Japan is the second biggest securities borrowing market in the world. Given the general wealth of the populace and a low-yield environment, there is a high demand for structured products and plenty of trading desks occupy their time attempting...
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Looking for Continued Growth, SGX Goes West
Singapore Exchange has had a good stretch of late. The exchange’s fiscal first quarter results were reported on October 25, showing approximately $149 million in revenues, a 7 percent year-over-year increase, and net profits of $66 million, a 9 percent year-over-year...
Oil volatility migrates from flat prices to spreads; Hedging is about to make a comeback on global crude oil markets; Hedging risk at peak levels through 2016
Lead Stories Oil volatility migrates from flat prices to spreads John Kemp - Reuters "Volatility can be neither created nor destroyed, rather it transforms from one form into another," is a pretty fair summary of how the oil market works (with apologies to...
CurveGlobal’s Michael Davie Looking For New Twist On Interest Rates
Newcomers are always looking to disrupt the status quo or add value to the marketplace. And CurveGlobal, a product development joint venture of the London Stock Exchange Group, CBOE and seven global banks, is planning to do both when it goes live later this year....
Revved Up: CME Europe’s Knottenbelt Says Currencies Just The Beginning
CME Europe launched in March with an eye on currencies. William Knottenbelt, head of European business operations for CME Group and the CEO of CME Europe, says that the exchange has a core group of seven clearing members with more on the way and its currency products...
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How One Ether Options Trader Lost $3M in a Trade Gone Bad
Observations & Insight Looking for 'the Right Type of Disruption' in the Wild West of Hemp JohnLothianNews.com After a long career in exchange-traded derivatives, Jack Bouroudjian, chairman of the Global Smart Commodity Group, is doing an about-face, turning to...
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