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Market players snapped up short-dated greenback calls and yen puts last week after positive U.S. economic data overshadowed speculation of a Chinese renminbi revaluation, which had players selling the dollar the previous week.

Principal Global Investors (Australia), part of Principal Global Investors with assets totaling more than USD138 billion worldwide, is looking to trade Australian credit products for the first time.

Credit strategists in Europe say market volatility on the back of leverage buyout talk is overblown.

Taipei-based Industrial Bank of Taiwan is finalizing a collateralized debt deal linked to asset-backed securities which it will distribute to clients by the end of the month.

Cardinal Asset Management, a London- and Dublin-based fund manager, is looking to launch a structured credit fund in the next few months.

--Greg Tell, director and head of North American credit options and exotics trading at Barclays Capital in New York, explaining why fine-tuned trades such as recovery swaps are getting less attention in the aftermath of recent credit downgrades.

Ashton Analytics, an investment advisory firm in Morristown, N.J., is launching four inflation-focused funds that will each use over-the-counter derivatives.

Credit traders around the world spent much of the week in a cold sweat while successive rumours and newspaper reports warned of a vicious spiral taking hold as hedge funds unwound credit positions.

Credit traders around the world spent much of the week in a cold sweat while successive rumours and newspaper reports warned of a vicious spiral taking hold as hedge funds unwound credit positions.

The $ 10 billion stand-by agreement is approved, Turkey has agreed to a 6.5% fiscal surplus target

ABN AMRO is readying a return to the Hong Kong warrants market.

Alcoa has cinched a $1 billion, five-year revolver with JPMorgan that provides the cheapest pricing on five-year bank debt the aluminum producer has ever had.