TY - JOUR T1 - Practical Applications of Dividend Swaps and Dividend Futures: <em>State of Play</em> JF - Practical Applications SP - 1 LP - 4 DO - 10.3905/pa.2017.5.2.241 VL - 5 IS - 2 AU - Scott Mixon AU - Esen Onur Y1 - 2017/10/31 UR - https://pm-research.com/content/5/2/1.10.abstract N2 - Asset managers are attracted to bilaterally negotiated OTC derivatives because of their flexibility and customized features, but they are hesitant to trade products with unknown liquidity and opaque pricing. Now, new mandatory regulatory data enables investors to quantify this vast marketplace and to use information about market size as a proxy for risk. Institutional Investor Journals talks with Scott Mixon and Esen Onur of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), whose article Dividend Swaps and Dividend Futures: State of Play peeks under the hood of the vast OTC index dividend swap market. “We can now look at that data, provide it to the markets, and understand much better what is going on in these previously opaque transactions,” says Mixon. ER -