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New Australian CEO for HSBC

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... with HSBC in Australia, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the Philippines. He began his career with HSBC as Head of Derivatives Trading in Australia in 1986. He also held a number of senior global banking and markets roles in Hong Kong and London before ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... Bank of Australia assistant governor (Financial System) Malcolm Edey is due to speak at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) Annual Australia Conference in Sydney while RBA board member and QIC chief economist John Edwards is to ...

New hedge fund rules for post-GFC environment

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
... schemes that exhibit at least two characteristics: complex investment strategy or structure; use of leverage; use of derivatives; use of short selling; and charging a performance fee. This then decides where a firm falls in terms of the new product disclosure ...

Tyndall appoints head of operations

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... experience in compliance and risk and relationship management including custodians, and background in equity, debt and derivatives funds management, will be particularly useful to Tyndall as we build on our existing investment capability and develop ...

ASIC raises bar on OTC derivatives

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
Issuers of OTC derivatives, including CFDs and margin foreign exchange derivatives, will have to meet new financial requirements just released by ASIC. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) yesterday announced an increase in minimum ...

Aust lags in financial job market

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... APAC. The sectors with the worst outlooks in Q2 were: equities, where cuts continued on the back of subdued markets, derivatives where continued economic uncertainty meant institutions focused more on 'bread-and-butter' functions such as transactions ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... better-than-feared JPMorgan Chase results that bared a $US5.8 billion ($A5.74 billion) loss on its bungled London derivatives trading operation. At the close the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 203.82 points (1.62 per cent) to 12,777.09. The S&P ...

HFT strategy profiling lab launched

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
Australian firm First Derivatives has launched a testing lab for HFT strategies and algorithms. Developed to allow firms to test their high frequency trading (HFT) algorithms and methods prior to live market release, the lab also has potential implications ...

BNP custody and settlement service goes live

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012

ASIC highlights CFD compliance issues

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... practices has shown non-compliance by a number of issuers of over-the-counter contracts for difference and margin FX derivatives. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) is midway though a risk-based review, which commenced in December ...