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Banks may roll out more European-style structured products to U.S. retail investors if the newly nominated Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox takes a more relaxed approach to regulation than his predecessor William Donaldson.

Chelsea Building Society is set to enter a fixed-to-floating interest rate swap.

Louis Capital Markets will launch a single-stock variance swap desk in September, and plans to set up a dividend swap desk once liquidity on these instruments improves.

The deputy governor of the People's Bank of China on current financial risk in the country

Emerging market debt maintained its strong momentum, helped by firm US Treasuries

Deutsche Bank has hired Goldman's investment-grade CDS trading chief in New York.

Ian Burdette has flipped to Deutsche Bank from Goldman Sachs.

Bond bears are converting to a more upbeat view of the market in the face of the ongoing Treasury rally.

BNY Capital Markets high-yield salesman John Campbell has left the firm and has joined BMO Nesbitt Burns in New York.

Blaylock & Co., a New York-based broker and investment bank, is looking to hire a slew of fixed-income professionals to build out its debt business, according to Sam Gottesman, chief operating officer.

Banker Banter is a new periodic feature in which LMW sits down with bankers to discuss the state of the market and happenings at their shops.