Structured Products

Death by association

The application of credit technology to diverse underlyings led to the birth of collateralised foreign exchange obligations in 2006. But despite being built from uncorrelated underlyings, their fortunes have proven highly correlated with the wider market…

BarCap offers retail white-label service

LONDON - Barclays Capital is breaking into the mass and private wealth management markets for foreign exchange with the launch of a white-label margin FX trading service called Barx White Label for Private Investors.

Merrill Lynch FICC team faces cuts

LONDON - Merrill Lynch put more than 80 members of staff in its fixed-income currencies and commodities (FICC) group in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region on a 90-day consultation period last Wednesday (April 23).

A call for old-fashioned banking?

Over the past few years, buy-side traders have been demanding a levelling of the playing field as they increasingly make markets in foreign exchange like their sell-side peers. So it was surprising, and even refreshing, to hear some calls for old…

Deutsche Bank continues ETN issues

NEW YORK - Deutsche Bank has launched four commodity-linked exchange traded notes (ETNs), in response to growing demand from retail and institutional investors for exposure to the commodity markets.

BarCap aims to capture FX volatility

LONDON - Barclays Capital has launched three foreign exchange volatility indexes, the BetaVol, Smart BetaVol and AlphaVol. The indexes, which are designed to provide portfolio diversification and event hedge protection against sudden market downturns,…

Merk offers Asian currency fund

PALO ALTO, CA - Merk Investments launched the Merk Asian Currency Fund (MACF) on Tuesday (April 1), a mutual fund that invests in a basket of Asian currencies, aimed at retail investors.

Small retail FX firms face extinction

Felix Shipkevich, general counsel, and Anna Vidiaev, staff attorney, at online foreign exchange trading company Capital Market Services in New York say a proposed rise in capital requirements for retail brokers will result in an anticompetitive market

A matter of preference

Jeffrey Todd Lins, director of quantitative analysis at Saxo Bank in Copenhagen, advances the tired debate over hedging versus alpha generation in wealth management.

Dresdner enhances risk appetite tool

LONDON - Dresdner Kleinwort has enhanced its proprietary multi-asset class risk appetite measurement tool, ARPI (aggregate risk perception index), ahead of a strong global push later this year.

Oiling the FX wheels

The Royal Bank of Canada is offering capital protection with a new FX-linked product that is based on currencies from six countries, including two of the world's biggest oil producers

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