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  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Synthetic convertible ETF aims at Magnificent Seven bond problem

    Despite their outsized influence, megacap US companies cannot be accessed by traditional convertible bond investors

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    Traders on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    US equities
    Nvidia-linked stocks drew big bets days before filing sparked rally

    Options volumes leapt for Nano-X and SoundHound ahead of details on chipmaking giant’s stakes

    The Nvidia logo at its headquarters in Santa Clara, California
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Clearing & Settlement
    EU scales back ambitions for post-Brexit clearing land grab

    Opposition from banks and asset managers and Franco-German tensions seen as undermining early plans

    The offices of London Stock Exchange Group, right
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    EU financial regulation
    Brussels weakens plans to shift derivatives clearing from London

    EU-based traders required to send up to 900 trades a year to ‘active accounts’ in the bloc

    Low cloud and mist shroud the top of skyscrapers in the City of London
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Eurex Frankfurt AG
    German derivatives exchange Eurex appoints ABN Amro’s Booij as chief

    Dutch banker to become first non-German head of Europe’s largest futures marketplace

    Robbert Booij
  • Saturday, 27 January, 2024
    Bitcoin
    Traders swoop on bitcoin ‘cash and carry’ trade after ETF launches

    Activity in futures contracts linked to cryptocurrency surges to record levels in January

    Bitcoin illustration
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Spot bitcoin ETFs spawn nascent derivatives ecosystem

    Volatility of the cryptocurrency means a host of risk-on/risk-off strategies will join Roundhill Bitcoin Covered Call ETF

    Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF (GBTC) signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Saturday, 20 January, 2024
    Fund management
    US pension funds worth $1.5tn add risk through leverage

    Retirement systems allow more borrowing and derivatives as private holdings strain cash flows

    Commuters at the Times Square subway station in New York
  • Monday, 11 December, 2023
    Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA
    Italian court acquits former Monte dei Paschi bosses in derivatives case

    Milan appeals court says the state-owned bank’s former bosses committed no crime

    Alessandro Profumo, the bank’s chair between 2012 and 2015, reacts to his acquittal
  • Monday, 4 December, 2023
    Carbon trading
    US regulator floats guidelines for unruly emissions offset market

    CFTC proposes standards for voluntary carbon credit derivatives

    A coal-fired power plant in Wyoming
  • Sunday, 26 November, 2023
    Nasdaq bets on boom in ‘zero day’ options with new contracts

    US exchange lists new options tracking gold, oil and Treasury ETFs

    The Nasdaq MarketSite in New York
  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    Crunch time for LOBO

    If this dog were an option, would it be exercised?

  • Monday, 6 November, 2023
    News in-depthETF Hub
    Investors in ‘synthetic’ ETF nursing losses after Nigeria pulled from index

    Move by S&P Dow Jones Indices highlights risks of swap-based contracts, especially in frontier markets

    The headquarters of the Nigerian Stock Exchange in Lagos
  • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
    LexCME Group Inc
    CME: future proofing in the age of uncertainty Premium content

    Economic and geopolitical uncertainties have been a boon for the US exchange

    CME Group logo
  • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
    Capital markets
    Cboe and S&P launch ‘credit Vix’ indices as higher rates squeeze corporates

    Launch of four indices is attempt to replicate success of ‘fear gauge’ for stocks in credit markets

    Traders in the Vix pit at Cboe Global Markets
  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    Equities
    Trade in ‘fear gauge’ at high as investors hedge amid fragile markets

    Vix trading is headed for a record amid uncertainty over rally and the impact of rising rates on economic growth

  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    Fund management
    Zero-day options now account for 50% of S&P options volumes

    Carpe nulla diem

  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Investors blocked from betting on US congressional elections by regulator

    CFTC says political-control contracts offered by futures market would be ‘contrary to the public interest’

    The dome of the US Capitol in Washington
  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    Cboe Global Markets
    Cboe chief resigns over undisclosed relationships with colleagues

    Edward Tilly to be replaced as boss of Chicago exchange group by board member Fredric Tomczyk

    Edward Tilly
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    Hedge funds
    Hedge fund bets could spark turmoil in US Treasuries, BIS warns

    Short positions in 2-year Treasury futures reached record highs in August

    A trader in New York
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    Exchange traded funds
    First ETF zero-day options ETF launches in the US

    Complexity of the product and the ‘casino’ nature of its ultra-short puts prompts concerns

    The Nasdaq logo in Times Square, New York City
  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    Gillian Tett
    Vulnerabilities in the Treasuries market aren’t going away

    Unease is rising — as are the extreme positions taken by hedge funds

    Illustration of a playing card that appears half as a joker, half as an economy grid, placed in the middle of two aces
  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    Banks and investors step up opposition to EU derivatives plans

    Trade bodies call on bloc to scrap initiative to move clearing deals out of London

    A view of skyscrapers in the City of London
  • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
    Europe poised for arrival of ‘zero-day’ options

    Eurex derivatives exchange to launch short-dated options on Stoxx 50 index from Monday

  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    Money Clinic with Claer Barrett podcast14 min listen
    Money Clinic introduces Unhedged: Hot new bad idea

    Zero day options are a larger and larger part of the options market, but will they blow up?

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