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Credit protection on Computer Sciences Corp. widened this week on buyout rumors.

Rich CDO equity tranche returns have piqued institutional buysider interest and so dealers are scurrying to structure deals with exposure to these unrated tranches.

The euro's surprise gain against the U.S. dollar last week caught fx options players off-guard, triggering a rush to cover short positions.

SG Corporate and Investment Banking has lured back Olivier Benator, a credit derivatives salesman at UBS in Paris, to its fixed income and derivatives sales desk, also in Paris.

Inter-dealer broker ICAP is planning to broker a first-of-a-kind cross-sector property derivatives trade.

Goldman Sachs is preparing to kick off its derivative warrants business in Hong Kong, after recently recruiting staff from established rival SG Securities.

Merger arbitrage players in the credit-default swaps market are being taught a pricey lesson in CDS documentation, as the planned buyout of German broadcaster ProSieben by publisher Axel Springer has sent ProSieben's CDS spread rallying rather than widening.

India's securities regulator is set to head to the country's Supreme Court after a tribunal overruled its ban on UBS issuing market-access derivative products.

International Swaps and Derivatives Association members congregated at the Conrad Hong Kong for the association's regional conference last week.

In the past few months, equity volatility trading has seen an unprecedented level of interest from investors who have traditionally traded equities, bonds, currencies and other common asset classes.

Merrill Lynch has hired Mathilde Roland, v.p. and equity derivatives trader at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong, in a new role focusing on exotics trading for multi-regional transactions.