Calyon offers a full range of products and services in capital markets, brokerage, investment banking, structured finance, commercial banking and international private banking.
Equity derivatives
300 professionals cover 40 countries from 12 locations in Europe, America and Asia. The equity derivatives business line offers products and solutions tailored to clients' needs. It is active in trading, sales and arbitrage.
A complete line of products
Products are based on a wide range of underliers:
- market indexes
- equities
- mutual funds
- venture capital funds
- underlying hybrids (volatility, correlation, dividends)
A strengthening of equity derivatives expertise. CASAM
Created in 2005, Crédit Agricole Structured Asset Management (CASAM) is a joint venture between Calyon and Crédit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM). It combines the structured management expertise, alternative investment solutions and ETF knowhow of the Crédit Agricole group.
CASAM offers innovative structured and customized products that use the underliers, options strategies, wraps and performance goals best suited to client requirements.
The CASAM group’s secure managed account platform provides investors with access to hedge funds chosen for their quality, while offering a high level of transparency, increased control of risk and greater liquidity than traditional hedge fund investments.
CASAM’s development strategy for its range of ETFs includes the introduction of “blockbuster” products and products investing in more “exotic” indexes, management using synthetics, and distribution through a dedicated sales force at Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux.