Asset Classes Archive

A new soon-to-be-launched trading platform will offer the buy-side a new and innovative means of sourcing non-standardised swaps that may become more expensive to trade and fund under new laws. read more>

Using electronic trading tools to source liquidity in the fixed income markets across a number of counterparties can significantly reduce trading costs, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley. read more>

Financial technology provider SunGard has developed a service that it says can help banks, broker-dealers and asset managers to organise their collateral in the most efficient way possible, ahead of the global shift towards central clearing of OTC derivatives. read more>

The Bank of England has set out its suggestions on how to determine which OTC derivatives can be made eligible for central clearing, as part of the government’s G20 commitment to reducing systemic risk in financial markets. read more>

Market participants have advised Europe’s securities watchdog to keep the specifications for deciding which OTC derivatives can be cleared as broad as possible to avoid circumvention of new regulations. read more>

Banking regulation Basel III could breathe new life into the securities lending sector, market participants claimed yesterday at a forum in London. read more>

Institutional investors have urged European regulators to reconsider the types of collateral that will be acceptable under new OTC derivatives rules and have also raised concerns about clearing house stability. read more>

Newedge Group, a multi-asset brokerage, has extended its US smart order router for equities and equity options to external market participants, which it says will be particularly useful for small- and mid-sized firms with constrained resources. read more>

Euroclear Bank, the international securities depository, has teamed up with BNP Paribas Securities Services to launch a service which broadens the pool of collateral available for buy-side clients. read more>

Nomura’s new venue for exchange-traded funds has increased its offerings to include a wide range of emerging markets instruments. read more>