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DWS Investments, the retail asset management arm of Deutsche Bank, has hired Henry Romijn, a Dutch salesman with structuring expertise, for a similar role.

U.K. investment product provider Dawnay Day Quantum has structured its fifth commodity-linked noted, in spite of rising commodity volatility making it harder to get attractive terms for commodity deals.

Credit protection on General Motors Corp. widened dramatically last week in response to Delphi Corp.'s Chapter 11 filing for bankruptcy protection.

The 2005 Novation Protocol was published Sept. 12 by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association partly as a result of the pressure which regulators have put upon their regulated institutions to cut backlogs of trade confirmations, and partly as a result of the evolution of market practices whereby novations are not effected legally, despite the intention of the parties involved.

Hypo Real Estate Bank is looking to expand its CDO activities with possible sales hires, after closing its second CDO of CMBS two weeks ago.

Fixed-income fund powerhouse III Offshore Advisors is planning to launch a credit derivatives arbitrage fund next month.

Lehman Brothers' Hyung Lee, head of fixed income for Asia, has been given responsibility over the entire capital markets group with the addition of cash and equity derivatives for the region to his remit, according to officials at the firm.

Equity derivative houses are anticipating new allocations of China's 'A' shares, which will allow them to up the amount of market-access derivative products they can sell.

Government-linked agencies in Korea have been unwinding structured derivative positions because of what they say is regulatory pressure.

Morgan Stanley is planning to offer medium-term debt securities linked to a new Chicago Board Options Exchange index.

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities is transferring Nobukazu Saeki, chief manager of the credit trading department in Tokyo, to London this week.