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Goldman Sachs has hired Tetsuya Ishikawa, a former credit derivatives marketer at ABN AMRO in London.
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Sempermacro, a London-based hedge fund, is looking at trading options across a number of asset classes as part of its newly-launched global macro fund.
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William Shek, managing director and head of interest rate trading at Merrill Lynch in Tokyo, is set to join HSBC in Hong Kong, to run regional currency derivatives trading.
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The European iTraxx credit indices continued to eclipse trading volumes on single names last week, as investors turned to indices while waiting for single-name volatility to subside further. -
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association is planning to release its debut template for the trading and settlement of credit-default swaps referenced to asset-backed securities this month.
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--Marcus Schüler, managing director in integrated credit marketing at Deutsche Bank in London, commenting on the return of confidence in the credit-default swap market.
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Seoul-based Korea Development Bank is looking to co-structure a synthetic CDO transaction in the coming months with a global credit house.
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Merrill Lynch is bringing aboard Rig Karkhanis, director and head of fx options trading at Deutsche Bank in Singapore.
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MassMutual Life Insurance Co. is considering widening its Japanese investment portfolio's remit to include synthetic collateralized debt obligations for the first time.
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The UK's Financial Services Authority will shortly release a new statement on UK covered bond issuance that will open the way to enshrining the market in law, EuroWeek understands.
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Citigroup's global fixed-income unit has promoted two officials to run its credit trading group.
