A three-way battle between Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan for top spot in equities revenue in 2024 will come down to derivatives performance. Equity derivatives also offer European banks a ...

Equity derivatives, as we know them today, are financial instruments that derive their value from price movements of underlying assets, typically a stock or stock index. They’re popular with traders ...

2024 was another strong year for banks’ markets divisions as traders made hay despite a drop in volatility across asset classes. For building on its impressive growth of recent years to cement its ...

Even as the US Federal Reserve pulled the trigger on rates, markets remained unshaken and banks had to battle for their share of a shrinking wallet as volatility plumbed new lows. Three years after ...

As the trend toward using equity derivatives in corporate finance sweeps Europe, the situation in the US couldnt be more different. Companies have long used equity derivatives to help manage ...

Corporate users of equity derivatives continue to seek out simple, transparent products. Until regulatory overhaul is complete, this tack is unlikely to change. The ripples from the 2008 financial ...

This year’s expected surge in IPOs and M&A deals should drive a proliferation of strategic equity derivative transactions, ...

The Government has introduced into Parliament the long-anticipated proposed amendments to Chapters 6 and 6C of the Corporations Act which will result in the mandatory disclosure of all forms of ...