Derivs - Equity

Credit Suisse’s differentiated approach to clearing has been much praised by clients this year. It combines the responsiveness of a boutique with the platform capabilities that allow its clients to scale. It has become a European champion in a business in danger of being dominated by US banks and is GlobalCapital’s Global Clearing Bank of the Year.

Citadel Securities has this year added depth to its FICC offering to compound an already strong position in equities. This breadth of business, which has been expanded with powerful entries into new markets, has been matched by the firm’s confidence in establishing itself as a significant public advocate on market issues, making it GlobalCapital’s Specialist Liquidity Provider of the Year.

It has been a year of strong expansion for JCRA with the firm spreading its influence and now regularly working with top tier funds and companies. It has also successfully moved into the FX hedging advisory sector, bulking up around its core offering on interest rates, and using that expertise to benefit UK housing associations and the renewable energy sector, among others. For that, it is GlobalCapital’s Risk Management Advisory Firm of the Year.

Mayer Brown is GlobalCapital’s Global Law Firm of the Year after an impressive 12 months that comprised working closely with ISDA on new regulations, having a seat on nearly every bank’s legal panel and making a number of key hires in the US.

Strength across the board, top positions in rates and FX and smart strategic decisions around the structure of its business mean that Bank of America Merrill Lynch is GlobalCapital’s Global Derivatives House of the Year for 2019. The bank also picked up the Interest Rate Derivatives House of the Year and FX Derivatives House of the Year awards.

GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Global Derivatives Awards. The winners were unveiled at a gala dinner at the Banking Hall in London on Wednesday night.

US Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman Heath Tarbert has followed in the footsteps of his predecessor, Christopher Giancarlo, in issuing a strong warning on the European Union’s EMIR 2.2 rules.

Natixis has become the first bank to introduce a green weighting factor to its internal capital model, so that the way it prices loans is skewed to favour environmentally sound assets and disadvantage polluting ones. The ground-breaking move brings to fruition an 18 month project and anticipates what some believe may one day be demanded by regulators.

Michael Zollweg is standing down as head of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Eurex Germanys' trading surveillance office, the body that supervises trading on both bourses.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has proposed to ease derivatives rules for US banks, including swap margin requirements.

The Democrat side of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has come out swinging against agreed changes to the Volcker rule.

Russell Thornton, who worked as the head of business development and product marketing for derivatives at Fidessa, has become trading strategy lead at another company.