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Barclays Global Investors in London has grown its series of pooled investment vehicles for pension funds to include fully- and partially-funded interest rate and credit derivative-based funds.

Eric Lepage, a credit derivatives trader at BNP Paribas in London, has joined Calyon as head of structured credit trading and quantitative research.

Charles McLendon, head of investment-grade sales and trading, including credit-default swaps, at Banc of America Securities in New York, has left the firm.

A newly-liquid point on the yield curve for relative value curve trading has been created by a pickup in demand for seven-year collateralized debt obligations.

Equity houses are impatiently awaiting additional quotas for China's 'A' share market, amid growing interest following the recent yuan revaluation.

U.S. hedge fund giant Citadel Investment Group is establishing a Hong Kong-based equity desk, spearheaded by Tim Throsby, global head of equity derivatives for Lehman Brothers in New York.

Collateral management is a vitally important support area.

Deutsche Bank's Mark Currie, head of interest rate trading in Auckland, last week transferred to London, as co-head of Euro swaps.

Citigroup is considering using new fund rules in the U.K. to roll out a type of fund that can invest in derivatives.

A pair of credit traders has quit Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein's London desk to take similar roles at other firms. Rob Illingsworth and Hussain Nasser both left this month.

Deutsche Bank has hired Aditya Bhugtiar, v.p. in structured credit sales at ABN AMRO in Singapore, for its institutional coverage group in Singapore, handling structured credit transactions.