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--David Crammond, Asia-Pacific head of structured credit sales at ABN AMRO in Singapore, talking about the opening up of the Chinese market to the collateralized debt obligation industry.

Banking and securities regulators may end up revising capital adequacy rules and forcing banks to change their risk management models.

U.K. hedge fund firm RAB Capital, which has USD1.5 billion under management, is readying an energy commodities fund for next year.

TD Securities in London has hired Achim Beck, head of credit derivatives marketing for Germany at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, and Desirée Fixler, head of credit sales for Germany at JPMorgan.

Taiwanese banking giant Bank SinoPac is planning to start offering retail credit products structured by foreign houses next year.

U.K. housing associations, including Hanover Housing Group and The Hyde Group, are considering using structured interest rate products for the first time.

Barclays Capital has hired a heavyweight credit derivatives official from Citigroup In New York and seven of his staffers.

Since 2001 Merrill Lynch has underwritten the highest percentage of global high-yield principal to have defaulted among bulge bracket underwriters.

APEC economic leaders outline their strategy for the region's future

Ministers from APEC's 21 Member Economies have released a Joint Statement

--Daniel Riediker, partner and ceo at Zurich-based Alegra Capital, on how the manager avoids potential conflicts of interest that may arise from its role as a CDO investor and collateral manager.

The European short-term asset-backed market is likely to see an increase in extendable note issuance, more single-seller conduits and a shift to multi-liability funding in 2005, according to Jean Dornhofer, senior v.p. at Moody's Investors Service in London.