“Once we have a futures contract on the CDS index some people currently trading OTC might migrate to trading futures, but I think it is more likely that this will open up new client bases,” says David Mark, chief executive officer at IIC. “There are many asset managers with pension fund clients who do not permit them to trade CDS but would if they were listed on a recognized futures exchange.”
Untested, untried
The futures contracts will be written against IIC’s iTraxx Europe CDS Index, a static portfolio of 125 CDS on European entities that is rolled every six months.
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