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Goldman Sachs hires for family office offering

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2021
... Singapore, and is currently an executive director within private wealth management. He also has experience as an oil derivatives trader with Citi, Glencore and Trafigura. Kavanagh was co-head of the charity and education investment group at Goldman Sachs ...

ASIC consults on market integrity rules

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
... drafting. Consultation Paper 342 includes amendments to the Securities Market Integrity Rules which covers accredited derivatives advisers, trades with price improvement, trade confirmations for non-retail clients and regulatory data reporting. In addition ...

Tribeca hires chief executive from Citi

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2021
... Capital. Prior to this he was portfolio manager at Merrill Lynch's Strategic Risk Group and director of emerging markets derivatives trading. Meanwhile, current managing director Aylward has assumed the role of executive chair to focus more on the investment ...

MSCI reviews emerging market classifications

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
... Turkey. Some of the exchanges in these regions restrict access to data, in turn restricting the creation of investment derivatives including ETFs, futures and options contracts. "As a reminder, any anti-competitive policy put forth by any exchange in ...

Government to strengthen FMI

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... financial system more broadly, supporting $18 trillion in securities transactions and $185 trillion in notional value of derivatives transactions every year," treasurer Josh Frydenberg said. The reform package will introduce a crisis management regime ...

LIBOR phased out by year end

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
... role of forward looking risk-free rate term rates in some limited cases. It also supports International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) spread adjustments in cash products. "Continued reliance on LIBOR poses significant risks and disruptions ...

Westpac to face court over insider trading

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... inside information and, when the market opened at 8.30am, Westpac's traders acquired and dumped interest rate derivatives to pre-position Westpac in anticipation of the transaction which was completed via a special purpose vehicle just shy of two ...

Cboe Chi-X takeover progresses

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
... Cboe taking over Chi-X, Jokovic said the ASX will have serious competition on clearing lists, corporate listings and derivatives business. "Now you'll have a bulge bracket exchange on the ground in Australia in Cboe to compete with the ASX. Cboe is one ...

Frontier hires from UK partner

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
... US. Earlier last month Frontier hired former Cbus senior portfolio manager Scott Pappas to lead its alternatives and derivatives team.

Super fund liquidity could be better: RBA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... 15%, meaning super funds were forced to pay more than $17 billion of margin to counterparties as they used currency derivatives to hedge foreign exchange rate risk on foreign-denominated investments. "Fund-level data show that funds with larger hedging ...