Market risk
Corporates assess their hedging options
Ben Nicklin, FX structurer at Royal Bank of Scotland in London, looks at the rise of option-owning corporate hedging strategies
15 minutes with: Stacy Williams, HSBC
Senior quant discusses the high levels of cross-asset correlation across today's markets
Dealers target hedging activity in the Philippines
MANILA – While authorities in the West increase derivatives regulation, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has liberalised rules governing both hedging and yield enhancement markets in the past few years. Despite the challenges of penetrating a market…
An imbalanced proposition
At the time of going to press, decisions on the future of the foreign exchange markets was still hanging in the balance, as regulators in the US debated the inclusion of forex swaps and forwards into the over-the-counter derivatives reforms.