Research

New derivatives position limits won’t dampen trading or hedging

Derivative traders, exchanges and non-financial firms seeking to hedge risk likely won't be greatly affected by a CFTC proposal.

Sure time to grasp the potential of structured products

The structured products market has surged in popularity this year, out sizing the total ETF market and more than double the total for the hedge fund market.

Capital markets set to unlock the potential of emerging economies

Capital markets in developing nations attract a tiny proportion of the world’s investment flows, if they are to reach their full potential, their equity, debt and derivatives' markets will need to be strengthened.

Taming of Asia's most volatile currencies creates new danger

Policy makers in Indonesia and Malaysia have been so successful in quashing currency volatility that this is breeding a new danger: complacency.

Emerging-market derivatives slow to catch on

Only one-tenth of global derivatives turnover is in contracts denominated in the currency of an emerging market economy, and what is traded is said to be disproportionately over-the-counter.

Derivatives trading needs equivalence

Global liquidity will continue to fragment if regulators do not harmonize rules on cross-border derivatives trading before new regulations come into force in the EU.

ECB questions non-euro CCP supervision

The ECB has previously tried to move the clearing of euro transactions away from London and into the Eurozone but the UK won a lawsuit to prevent this happening.

Winner takes it all in the world’s biggest equity options market

India’s index options market, the biggest in the world, is a virtual monopoly.

Leverage ratio emerging as crux of post-post-crisis reform

A simmering debate about whether the leverage ratio or risk-weight capital rules should rightly act as the binding constraint on the biggest banks is likely to soon come to a head.

Swaps clearing faces tougher rules to avert too-big-to-fail

Global regulators proposed tougher standards for clearinghouses at the heart of the $493 trillion derivatives market, taking some of the biggest steps yet to prevent the platforms from becoming too big to fail.