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Alister Jelley, a senior fx options trader at Deutsche Bank in London, has relocated to the firm's Sydney office.

The price of credit protection on Dutch telecom company Royal KPN jumped last week, after the government sold half its 16% stake.

Equity derivative back office and front office staff alike are looking at ways of clearing up log-jammed equity trades, before the asset class attracts the same regulatory scrutiny as its credit counterpart.

Laiki Bank, a Greek retail bank based in Athens, is marketing its first FTSE growth and income deposit account to customers in the U.K.

Goldman Sachs is pitching a leveraged super senior transaction with an underlying of commercial mortgage backed securities.

--Tony Sanfilippo, director of listed trading at Jefferies & Company in New York, on the firm considering building up its derivative business in London.

Volumes on credit index iTraxx CJ have slumped in recent weeks, according to Tokyo dealers, following the ballooning of credit spreads in Sanyo Electric, a component of the index.

Jefferies & Company is looking to grow its derivative business to cover over-the-counter trading.

Merrill Lynch is considering launching high-yielding structured bonds next year in India, as an alternative to the traditional products available in the market.

A derivatives warrant market has launched in Korea, which equity officials expect to develop into a major market.

Credit players have reported an upsurge in European iTraxx correlation in the past two weeks and attributed the move to a convergence of players using the index to put on key hedges.