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The following charts show the top five advancers and decliners in terms of % moves in the loan, bond and credit default swap markets for the previous week.

Law 35/2003 on collective investment trusts, dated Nov. 4, has provided a more flexible regulatory framework for collective-investment institutions-IICs--in Spain.

A wave of equity-linked notes issued late last year on Hong Kong underlying have hit redemption-trigger levels given the surprising market rally this month.

WestLB has hired Maurice Wren, equity sales director for the City and Channel Islands at Allianz Global Investors, as a director responsible for retail distribution.

ABN AMRO and Deutsche Asset Management are road showing credit-linked notes with capital protection to investors in Europe and Asia.

Barclays Global Investors' first managed collateralized debt obligation in the U.S. is reopening its equity tranche--with principal protection--to new investors.

A USD2.5 billion dollar/yen volatility trade and the Nikkei 225's unexpected crash triggered a spike in one-week implied volatility, which traders were looking to play last week.

BlueBay Asset Management, a London-based credit-fund manager running USD3.5 billion in assets, has launched a second tap of its high-yield long/short credit fund and is marketing it globally.

Eric Glicksman, former head of equity structured products at Wachovia Securities in New York, has resurfaced as head of Citigroup's structured products group.

Canada's CIBC World Markets is revving up its nascent structured-credit marketing desk in Asia.

Commerzbank Corporates & Markets has hired Franck Morotti, former v.p. and exotic equity derivatives trader at TD Securities in London, as a senior fund-derivatives trader.

JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank are among credit houses making inroads into the budding tranchelets market by quoting two-way prices for the instruments.