The Background: Pre-hedging has been the subject of significant debate within the financial industry in recent years, with concerns often raised over potential conduct and market integrity issues. The ...

On November 3, 2025, IOSCO released its anticipated Pre-Hedging Final Report (“Final Report”) detailing its assessment of current pre-hedging market practices and setting out recommended guidance for ...

Though pre-hedging has been lauded by some across the markets as a key way to improve market efficiency, the buy-side continue to have reservations as to its empirical use. The mechanism allows ...

Feb 1 (Reuters) - Australia's corporate regulator on Thursday rolled out supervisory directions for market intermediaries on pre-hedging practices, just a day after a court found Westpac WBC.AX, the ...

The pre-hedging controversy surrounding guaranteed VWAP bids prompted UBS to send a letter to its clients that discloses its trading practices. The full-disclosure letter says that UBS does not use ...

Thibault Gobert, head of liquidity pool at Spectrum Markets, talks about the paradigm shift in market making over the past decade – and why pre-hedging should be the topic on everyone’s lips right now ...

Consultation papers are like tea leaves or runes: observers study them for clues to future actions or events. Such is the case with Iosco’s latest consultation paper on the controversial practice of ...

Citing concerns about manipulative trading, global securities regulators are consulting on proposed guidance to deal with so-called “pre-hedging” transactions in securities and derivatives markets.

Dealers may soon face stricter controls on the way they hedge client orders after the global standard-setter for securities regulation launched a review of the controversial practice of pre-hedging, ...

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The Chicago Board Options Exchange, as part of its drive to win order flow away from the over-the-counter market, got a big boost from the Securities and Exchange Commission. The regulator approved a ...