2025 provided a host of money-making opportunities for banks’ equity derivatives operations as traders revelled in the intermittent bouts of volatility, while structured desks enjoyed growing client ...

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 ...

Despite new entrants joining the market, the equity derivatives business saw a marked slowdown over the past year, and some well-established firms are now scaling back their operations. After the ...

Equity derivatives businesses either flourished or foundered in 2020: flow trading volumes ballooned even as many exotics desks struggled. For continuing to grow a balanced and diversified business in ...

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 ...

Market participants say without designated market makers, sufficient liquidity, rational margin requirements and an enabling ...

As part of our ongoing effort to educate investors and make markets more accessible, @Nasdaq launched its Derivatives Academy, an intuitive e-learning program built to satisfy the explicit need for ...

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 ...

Some things just don’t change. Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley have all maintained their top 3 positions and rankings as the leading brokers of flow equity derivatives ...

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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 ...