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Since its inception in 1990, China's stock market has grown to list more than 1,300 stocks.

Collateralized debt obligations referencing synthetic asset-backed securities are being held back because of confusion as to what constitutes a synthetic ABS credit event.

One of Deutsche Bank's senior structured product salesmen has left the firm.

Dealers say hedge funds and prop desks may have missed out on the jump in equity implied correlation following the bomb attacks in London, after unwinding dispersion trades designed to take long correlation positions.

Goldman Sachs is looking to step into the competitive Hong Kong warrants market and has hired a veteran for the effort.

HSBC last Monday transferred Jerome Ferracci, head of equity derivatives in Paris, to Hong Kong to run its Asian business.

An investigation into derivatives trading with Korean government-linked entities has effectively closed the multi-billion dollar business.

Market players piled into short-dated sterling puts last week as the currency sank against the U.S. dollar following the explosions that rocked London and financial markets Thursday.

Merrill Lynch is recommending buying straddles on Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index, based on probability methodology rather than commonly-used vol pricing.

Firms are marketing innovative currency and rate swaps to emerging market sovereign debt issuers, in which the swap knocks out if the sovereign defaults.

A monoline-friendly template for credit-default swaps referenced to asset-backed securities is in the works, after insurers rejected the International Swaps and Derivatives Association's pay-as-you-go format.

Over-the-counter derivatives markets in Europe recovered quickly after bomb attacks in London on Thursday.