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Goldman Sachs is beefing up its capacity to provide credit for investment grade-clients.

Distressed investors are skeptical of Salton Inc.'s ability to refinance its bond issue that expires this December, which it must do in order to avoid defaulting.

J.P. Morgan is looking to capitalize on the increased growth of hedge funds and public accounts in the loan market by moving its loan trading group from the private to the public side of the informational wall.

J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management is looking to ramp up its assets under management and is aiming to be among the top five fixed-income managers, said Gary Madich, chief investment officer of J.P. Morgan's Columbus-based fixed-income group.

Lehman Brothers is the top Wall Street dealer for liquid markets trading and sales, according to the results of Institutional Investor Research Group's U.S. Fixed-Income Report for 2004.

Bankhall, support provider to a network of independent financial advisors in the U.K., is calling for the setup of an industry body to promote structured products.

Accounting changes mean structured product distributors now value after-sale liquidity over the price of the derivatives they buy.

A constant maturity credit-default swap market is expected to develop in Japan as firms look for alternatives to plain vanilla products in the persistent tight-spread environment.

Tokyo-based Shinko Securities is gearing up to boost its presence in the Japanese structured credit arena with plans to enter the collateralized debt obligation and index linked markets.

Chris French, head of exotics and hybrids at JPMorgan in London, will retire in March.

JPMorgan has lost a handful of high-ranking equity derivatives officials just a week after senior credit staffers quit.

Macquarie Bank is planning to structure tranched credit index products in the coming months for the first time.