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Morgan Stanley offers leveraged single-country exposure to China
Morgan Stanley's leveraged product falls back in line with market conventions, but some products in the latest issuance feature extended tenors and reduced participation rates
Foreign banks get temporary respite from China’s new ‘Volcker rule’
Foreign banks in China, particularly thinly capitalised branches that are not locally incorporated in the country, greeted a decision by China’s banking regulator to postpone rules aimed at limiting non-hedging business onshore with relief this month…
Barclays takes its turn to dominate issuance with resource and energy reverse convertibles
Barclays has issued a swathe of reverse convertibles, while HSBC and Wells Gargo are extending tenors on leveraged products.
Linking autocall phoenix structures to FX and emerging markets
From Phoenix to forex
US structured products show preference for baskets of underlyings
Recent US structured products issuances have contained several products with multiple underlyings and the latest follows suit with basket products from HSBC, Barclays and Morgan Stanley.
Best bank for Islamic finance: HSBC
Best bank for Islamic finance: HSBC
Product retrospective: Perfect for pensioners
Perfect for pensioners
HSBC lists physical Russia ETF as noise around swap-based ETFs grows louder
HSBC's head of ETFs says the bank has no plans to create swap-based products and there should be steps to make structures clearer to investors.
Daiwa Capital Markets appoints new head of secured financing
Christopher Owen joins investment banking arm of Daiwa Securities Group
HSBC Global Asset Management appoints new Asia CIO
Bill Maldonado, who was a derivatives portfolio manager in the 1990s, is transferring from London to become chief investment officer for HSBC Global Asset Management in Asia
Tenors get extended as structurers face poor market conditions
Maturities for US structured products get stretched and Barclays issues a reverse convertible with a high risk rating
Asia readies for new hedge accounting rules
Brought to account
Asia Risk institutional derivatives rankings 2011
Asian assets decouple
Hearing on Libor class action venue due
US dollar Libor banks could find out details of a class action lawsuit against them as early as August
Time for a single reserve currency is over, warns Gulliver
HSBC chief executive expects renminbi to become a reserve currency within 15 years and shares the bank’s outlook for the Chinese currency
Shortage of underlyings is stunting development of renminbi products, say providers
Market participants say a lack of renminbi-denominated underlyings is slowing down the development of renminbi-denominated equity-linked products
Spot USD/CNH fixing in HK poised to become derivatives benchmark
Hong Kong interbank participants have created the first US dollar to offshore renminbi price fixing giving the city first-mover advantage in becoming an offshore centre for renminbi products such as derivatives, say market participants
Inflation and interest rate differentials favouring emerging markets
Long-term prospects for emerging markets look promising, but a more challenging global backdrop and ongoing inflation pressures argue for continued caution, according to European market participants
Lloyds abandons AMA
Lloyds has abandoned the AMA after trying to combine two models, losing key staff and coming under scrutiny from regulators
Macroeconomic uncertainty boosts demand for gold and oil exposure
Continued uncertainty about inflation and deepening concerns over sovereign default risks in Europe are making the commodities increasingly attractive as hedging tools
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Outgoing SFC chief slams Geithner on regulatory arbitrage comments
Martin Wheatley, the outgoing chief executive of the SFC, dismissed suggestions Asia may attempt to use regulatory arbitrage to the detriment of the US; Alexa Lam, named as the interim CEO
StanChart bests the rest for coporates derivatives in Asia
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