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The U.S. dollar's drop against major currencies this week fueled front-end option buying across the curve, as investors who had liquidated positions before the holidays looked to set up new ones going into this year.

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein has reorganized its alternative investments group, following the departure of Mehraj Mattoo, managing director and global head of the group in London.

Credit derivative houses in Japan are preparing for a flurry of credit products using constant proportion portfolio insurance this quarter.

Investec Bank is looking to offer more equity investment products this year which play correlation, such as single stocks versus stock baskets or indices.

Oak Hill Platinum Partners, the U.S. investment firm run by billionaire Robert Bass and his team, is planning to increase the risk profile for its Oak Hill Contingent Capital Fund, according to an investor document.

Volumes for the new derivative warrant market in Korea have surged ahead faster than expected, according to market participants.

High-net-worth and retail investors in structured products are looking for increasingly bullish equity structures.

--Richard Metcalf, senior policy director at the International Swaps and Derivatives Assocation in London, explaining the significance of the Pension Protection Fund not acknowledging credit-default swaps as risk mitigation instruments.

Rabobank is preparing to broaden the scope of its budding Asian equity derivatives operation by targeting additional markets.

Protection selling by dealers looking to tidy books in the New Year drove trading in the credit-default swap market last week.

Royal London Asset Management has entered the credit derivatives market with the launch of a credit-default swap trading mandate.