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Alessandra Stagliano, a senior corporate credit saleswoman at Citigroup, is set to join BNP Paribas in a similar role based in London.
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UBS has hired Ranjit Sikka, a correlation trader at Deutsche Bank in London, as a managing director and global head of credit index tranche trading.
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International Swaps and Derivatives Association officials have commissioned a Vietnamese-language version of the Master Agreement to facilitate the growing market.
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The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius is looking to juice up its domestic corporations’ use of fx swaps and options to hedge exposures.
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Markit is rolling out a new MBX agency mortgage bond index that caters to investors looking for exposure to both interest-only swaps and principle-only cash flows.
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Tradeweb is planning to launch an electronic equity trading platform for European equity options—a first for that market.
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European regulatory authorities will be given powers to summon firms or financial services individuals to provide explanations and supporting documents setting out the purpose and the underlying risks to their credit default swap trading activities, according to a European Commission draft bill for naked short selling obtained by Derivatives Week.
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Daniel Palmer, the ex-head of global capital markets at HSBC in London and formerly co-head of global capital markets for Asia Pacific at Morgan Stanley, has rejoined the latter firm today in a new role based in London.
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ING Bank has launched five-year, worst-of memory coupon notes that offer a potential 46% return depending on the performance of three underlying indices.
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Derivative users and industry groups in Europe have voiced their opposition for the so-called systemic internalizer regime to be adapted and applied to the trading of over-the-counter derivatives.