CME Group is working with Chinese regulators to help more brokers trade derivatives overseas. This would enable mainland institutions to better hedge their commodity risks.
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After being cleared to conduct over-the-counter equity derivatives, the securities firm seeks to target insurers initially. It sees room for growth in this area amid CSRC liberalisation.
Stamp duty is seen as prohibitively expensive for high-frequency traders after IMC shuts its Hong Kong trading desk and makes two-thirds of its HK staff redundant.
A number of fund management companies have started trading index futures, while E Fund Management is readying commodity index products.
The regulator is ready to allow the launch of such products, having frozen them in 2008. But it has more liberalising to do, says Tino Moorrees of BNP Paribas Investment Partners in Jakarta.
Investors looking to hedge tail risks should look across asset classes to ensure an affordable premium and a meaningful pay-out, argues III Associates.
The index-fund industry is watching for a response from the Securities & Futures Commission after a magazine article highlights the risks of swap-based and synthetic exchange-traded funds.
Combined volume on Asian derivatives exchanges has finally overtaken North America, led strongly by Korea and India. But the competition for regional dominance is heating up.
KH Kang joined BNY Mellon earlier this month from Woori Securities to replace TB Song.
The European derivatives exchange says volumes are growing fast, particularly from small prop-trading firms using algorithmic trading.
The bank transfers PJ Andersson from New York to become pan-Asia head of equity derivative and convertible sales and makes promotions and hires for its Asia CB trading desk.
Asset managers are also increasingly seeking derivatives-processing services, according to HSBC and JP Morgan.