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Amias Berman has expanded its European fixed income structured products team with the hire of two former Citigroup saleswomen.
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The planned pilot project to trade credit default swaps in China will still happen this year, according to a well placed official in Beijing.
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European lawmakers have proposed a ban on financial services employees being allowed to hedge their bonus payouts. The hedges popped up last season when deferred bonus payouts were being pushed by regulators and staffers.
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The sovereign wealth funds of Qatar, Bahrain and Dubai are set to buy a USD1.25 billion life settlement bond—a sizeable slug for an oft-touted market that is still fairly illiquid.
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Credit Suisse has launched a 13-month capped leveraged structured note linked to both a basket of Asian equity indices and their corresponding currencies.
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CitiFirst, the structured products arm of Citigroup, has launched its CUBES commodity-linked algorithmic strategy and indices in the U.S.
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Asset managers and registered investment advisors have urged issuers to keep structured products simple in order to garner interest from clients, at a time when more exotic structures written on algorithmic indices begin to find favor.
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Growth in the property derivatives market will depend on the level of corporate exemptions in forthcoming E.U. over-the-counter derivatives legislation.
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Japanese banks are looking for a foreign bank to act as a market maker of property derivatives in order to help kick start the nascent business to life, hoping an experienced player will help blaze a trail for them
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Interdealer broker Tullet Prebon has shut its Asia Pacific property derivatives desk in Singapore.