Hedge funds remain the biggest users of equity swaps, with 60% of the hedge funds participating in the study identifying themselves as users, up from approximately 45% last year. The proportion of ...

As of Sept. 22, 77 companies in China had conducted debt-for-equity swaps worth more than 1.3 trillion yuan. ($1 = 6.6175 Chinese yuan renminbi) (Reporting by Chen Aizhu; editing by Alexander Smith).

Debt-to-equity swaps will be key to lowering corporate debt levels, and are expected to gather pace in the future with improved regulation, the official said.

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SAO PAULO — Brazilian brewer Ambev said on Wednesday its board has approved the execution of equity swaps with banks of up to 1.2 billion reais ($232 million) having as underlying assets shares issued ...

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Tabb estimates that 70% of buy-side firms in the US trade total-return swaps and nearly 40% trade exotic options. It expects this number to rise to 45% by the end of next year. The continuing growth ...

That would allow banks holding debt in those enterprises to convert it into equity. Total contract value of such swaps has already exceeded 1 trillion yuan ($149.4 billion), according to the NDRC.