We talked to Sylvain Broyer, Head of Economics at Natixis, about the current economic and political situation in Europe, the likelihood of another financial crisis and other key issues.

Year-on-year volumes for DAX®, Mini-DAX® and STOXX® Europe 600 Futures show strong growth. Here, a likely driver for future client activity will be communication from the ECB around reduction and timing of the withdrawal from quantitative easing measures in 2018. 

Part four of our “Pioneering CCP transparency” series sheds some light on Eurex Clearing’s recently published “Public Quantitative Disclosure” and provides you with an insight into our risk models and model validation.

Market participants are eyeing opportunities in VIX/VSTOXX spreads, 2019 dividends and alternative risk premia investing as volatility is expected to remain high following its dramatic revival in Feb 2018.