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Mike Wilson, a managing director in institutional structured product sales for the U.K. and Ireland at Société Générale in London, has joined JP Morgan in a similar role.
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Amias Berman & Co., a fixed income advisory, origination and brokerage firm, has hired Michael Ridley, a former director in credit research at Citigroup in London, as a senior credit salesman.
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The lowest barrier in a rash of digital one-touch euro/U.S. dollar trades was hit Tuesday—making the strategy a big payer for the hedge funds that executed them. Talk of the trades held center stage amid the traditional thin late August fx marts last week.
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Clariden Leu is finding floating-rate low barrier reverse convertibles to be this summer’s bestseller for its Swiss clients.
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A coalition of industry groups, including the Association for Financial Markets in Europe and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, has expressed concerns about a single reporting regime for both transaction and position reporting on over-the-counter derivatives based on reporting through trade repositories.
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The Life & Longevity Markets Association will release today a framework for a longevity index, which will be the basis for a tradable index the organization intends to create.
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BNP Paribas has hired Alan Pierce as head of European corporate credit trading, both cash and synthetic.