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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.

ABN AMRO recently recruited two marketers for its private investor products group in Hong Kong to expand its product and market coverage for the region.

Korea's Samsung Card Co. is preparing to close a cross-currency swap transaction before the end of the year to hedge a recent USD300 million cross-border asset-backed securities deal.

Citigroup has hired lawyer Mushtaq Kapasi as a structurer in its equity derivatives group in Hong Kong.

Last week's auction setting the recovery rate for index-traded credit-default swaps on Delphi Corp. has likely affected the way the market will price recoveries of highly referenced names and CDOs containing them in the future.

Credit Suisse First Boston is planning to roll out a string of collateralized debt obligations of pure equity-default swaps, a rare structure that many derivatives houses have dismissed as a novelty.

A flurry of dealer activity in the super-senior tranche of synthetic collateralized debt obligations this year has snatched business from the monolines, highly rated insurers who only sell protection on low-yielding securities.

Deutsche Bank has hired two director-level equity derivative traders for the Asian markets to boost its regional capabilities.

The euro plummeted to a two-year low against the U.S. dollar in the spot market last week, increasing already high demand for front-end downside euro/dollar options.

Dealers are expecting a domestic interest-rate swap market to emerge next year on the mainland.

Fortis Bank has structured a synthetic collateralized debt obligation embedded with a novel forward-starting management technique and has brought on board Solent Capital Partners, a London-based hedge fund controlling USD4 billion in investments, to run the transaction.