Derivs - Equity

A senior Deutsche Bank staffer has left the Hong Kong office and is tipped to relocate to the firm’s London office.

Nearly 300 issuers, distributors and investors attended the Structured Products Association's summit held last week at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York.

Issuers of structured retail investments are starting to impose higher minimum close amounts on third-party distributors as fees for structured products have compressed in the past year.

The explosion in exchange-traded notes could hit a speed bump due to a dearth of specialist firms on the big stock exchanges willing to list them.

JPMorgan is transferring a London-based sales staff to Hong Kong.

Merrill Lynch has hired five staffers to expand its Hong Kong equity derivatives operation.

UniCredit has beefed up its fund derivatives team with the addition of Amit Sharma, managing director, and Jean-Marc Spitalier, director, who were both previously with Lehman Brothers.

Equity derivative structurers are tipping investments tied to Southeast Asian equity as a hot play for investors seeking growth markets.

Assenagon Group, an independent European asset manager, has hired two derivatives staffers to new positions at the firm.

Morgan Stanley has hired a pair of equity derivatives traders from UBS in London.

The Bank of Ireland’s U.K. office is selling its first natural resource-linked bond.

BNP Paribas has a former Citi staffer to head equity derivative flow sales to emerging market clients in London.