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  • ANZ made the biggest hire of the week by appointing a new head of structuring in Hong Kong. Adam Crawford moves to the firm from Citigroup, where he spent a year as an equity derivatives trading strategist. Also in Asia, Trudy Lee has left her role as head of fixed income markets at Crédit Agricole in Singapore, while BNP Paribas has moved a rates trader from London to Singapore.
  • Investors are buying credit default swap contracts on subordinated debt, which is trading wider than equivalent senior CDS, ahead of a change in the credit event definitions next year.
  • There has been no shortage of media coverage about the swaps market transformation, but with deadlines fast approaching the question of buyside preparedness is looming large.
  • Institutional investors are showing interest in emerging market fx structured notes that have barriers significantly higher than spot. According to structurers, barriers in some emerging market currency pairs are higher than spot has ever traded.
  • Foreign investors looking to access the offshore yuan liquidity are better served in the cross currency swap market than entering the nascent CNH HIBOR interest rate swap market, launched earlier in summer.
  • Standard Chartered is finding corporate takers for structured products that use the premium from selling fx options to participate in equity options—a novel play for that type of investor.