Risk Management

Derivatives

J.P. Morgan is a proven pioneer in the derivatives industry.  We provide sales, trading and research services to a broad range of clients, including institutional investors, corporates and affluent individuals. J.P. Morgan’s derivatives practice has a global footprint with teams to support credit, rate and equity derivatives in each region of the world.

J.P. Morgan has leadership across all asset classes.  We are recognized as a thought leader in derivatives and are unrivaled in the number of deal and industry awards we have collected over the years.  Most importantly, we can use our innovative capabilities and broad experience to meet our clients’ needs.  

Innovation  
J.P. Morgan has demonstrated its innovative capabilities in multiple areas:

  • Product offerings:  New volatility products, dynamic structured products, alternative investment underlyings, leveraged finance, prime brokerage and futures & options.
  • Industry transformation:  We were early users and key sponsors of multiple initiatives including SwapsWire, DTCC, EquiLend and Totem.

Research  
We leverage our award-winning research and a deep understanding of derivatives markets to provide original trade ideas that suit each client’s investment preferences.

  • The Credit Derivatives Strategy Team analyzes the credit default swaps (CDS) market from a valuation perspective and, working with Credit Research, identifies trading strategies for clients related to default protection.
  • The Fixed-Income Derivatives Strategy team is a global relative-value research team supporting clients in the swaps, futures and options markets.
  • The Equity Derivatives Strategy team provides our clients and traders with relative-value trade ideas and quantitative research on the global equity and equity derivatives markets.

Clients can access research publications through MorganMarkets, including industry reports, charts, commentary and real-time market data.


Awards

  • Derivatives House of the Year, Bank Risk Manager of the Year, Credit Derivatives House of the Year, and Derivatives Research House of the Year (Risk, 2009)
  • #1 Credit Derivatives overall (Risk Institutional Investor Survey, 2009)
  • #1 overall in the Total Derivatives / Euromoney dealer ranking survey (Risk, 2008)
  • Best Rates Derivatives House in Asia (The Asset, 2008)
  • Derivatives House of the Year (Risk, 2008)
  • Best Credit Derivatives House of the Year (Credit, 2008)
  • Financial Derivatives House of the Year (FOW, 2008)
 
 

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