Currency derivatives house of the year: Standard Chartered – Risk.net

For Asia-Pacific’s foreign exchange markets, the past year could be described as the calm after the storm. Following a spell of sharp price movements and heavy trading across most currency pairs at the start of 2020, currency markets have returned to their sleepy, subdued pre-pandemic state. “We’re back to the regime we were facing in […]

Equity derivatives house of the year: BNP Paribas – Risk.net

Several years ago, at a time when investors were starting to wonder if the longest bull market in investment history might be nearing its end, BNP Paribas’s non-flow structuring team in the Asia-Pacific (Apac) region decided it was time for some new additions to the product offering. “We were starting to see clients paying more […]

Derivatives house of the year Asia ex-Japan: Societe Generale – Risk.net

Societe Generale, while long regarded as a leading derivatives franchise in Asia-Pacific (Apac), has traditionally, at least, been best known for its dominance in one specific business line above all else, says Jerome Niddam, head of global markets for Apac at Societe Generale in Hong Kong. Over the past year and a bit, that has […]

Interest rate derivatives house of the year: Deutsche Bank – Risk.net

Ahead of the upcoming new accounting standard International Financial Reporting Standard 17 (IFRS 17), addressing asset and liability duration mismatches is a growing focus of insurance companies the world over. But containing such balance-sheet mismatches with traditional interest rate swap hedges is far from straightforward, especially for those local insurers operating in Asia’s notoriously illiquid […]

Derivatives law firm of the year: Linklaters – Risk.net

Linklaters wins this year’s award for top Asian derivatives law firm, thanks to the support it has given, and continues to give, the structural development of Greater China’s capital markets – something that is always watched closely by financial services professionals across Asia and further afield. While there are many other law firms that could […]