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Bonds and Financial Derivatives: Quo Vadis?. JSE Media Day – August 2012 Graham Smale – Director: Bonds and Financial Derivatives. Agenda. Equity Derivatives Currency Derivatives Bonds Bond and IR Derivatives. 2012 – What has changed since last year.
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Bonds and Financial Derivatives: Quo Vadis? JSE Media Day – August 2012 Graham Smale – Director: Bonds and Financial Derivatives
Agenda • Equity Derivatives • Currency Derivatives • Bonds • Bond and IR Derivatives
2012 – What has changed since last year • In January 2012 all financial products, excluding cash equities and commodities we centralised under a single Exco position headed up by Graham Smale, who previously headed up the Interest Rates division. • The operations staff for bonds and financial derivatives has been centralised under Brett Kotze, General Manager: Clearing and Settlement, reporting to the Director: Post Trade Services • Divisional management has been streamlined into product groups and support; • Equity Derivatives – Magnus de Wet • Interest Rates and Currencies – Warren Geers • Can-Do products – Paolo Govetto • Change Management, Training and Education – Anthony Leibrandt • Quantitative Support – Rudolph Oosthuizen
Equity Derivatives • The JSE has a rich product suite • Index futures options – The flagship product and responsible for most of the activity • Single Stock Futures and Options – A leveraged alternative to shares • IDX futures and options – Exposure to international equities, including BRICS (Bricsmart the JV with other BRICS exchanges) • Any-day expiry futures and options – Flexibility of expiry on standard products • Can-Do futures and options – OTC replication of complex products (as long as we can value it we will clear it) • Current challenges • Global equity markets are subdued in the wake of sustained economic uncertainty and the tsunami of regulatory change • The technology arms race
Equity DerivativesOpportunities for 2013 and Beyond • Bringing the equity derivatives closer to underlying equities • Billing models • Market-making incentives • Product evolution • Exchange-cleared CFDs – To benefit from the consequences of the implementation of Basel III on the costs of OTC products • Speculative dividend futures • IDX – International shares and indices • Stimulation of the options market – Electronic trading and Market-making • Technology • Evolving the technology platform (Millennium Exchange) • Co-location – The rise of the machine and the value of proximity
Plans for Currency Derivatives • Evolution of the billing model • Incentives for market-makers and volume providers • Offering products that compete effectively with the OTC market • Any-day expiry • Can-Do’s - Exotic options • Linking cash settled contracts to specific spot transactions on expiry • Cross currency pairs – e.g. EURUSD, requires policy and Excon approval
Products • The JSE runs a combined market for listed instruments: • Government and non-government bonds • Securitisations • Commercial paper • Bond and bond index derivatives • Short-term interest rate (STIR) futures (Jibar futures)
Product toolset Government Bonds “Risk-free” Jibar Futures GOVI Real Rates Interbank Swaps Future Inflation ILBI
Bonds and IR DerivativesFocus areas for 2012 and beyond • Defining new secondary market trading rules for the cash market • Government bonds – This will be the output from a policy forum chaired by National Treasury • Non-government bonds – Working with the market on options • Clearing of bonds – Counterparty risk will become a limiting factor under Basel III • Growing the interest rate derivatives market • Liquidity providers on key products – Aids with the “transparency” debate • New product development – Bond futures similar to popular international products • Billing model • New billing model for cash bonds • Linking the cash and derivatives markets