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Tokyo-based Mizuho Securities is looking to offer synthetic collateralized debt obligations linked to asset-backed securities and CDO portfolios for the first time in Japan in the coming months.

Dawnay Day Quantum, the structured products division of U.K. broker Dawnay, Day, is launching a novel retail investment product based on a portfolio of commodities.

UBS is planning to open its first private wealth management branch in Tokyo next month and will offer a range of structured products created with derivatives, according to officials at the firm.

Westdeutsche Landesbank has started trading Australian credit derivatives from its recently launched Singapore hub.

European pension funds are considering using swaps to lengthen the duration of their fixed income portfolios as the focus on liability matching becomes more intense, according to DW sister publication BondWeek.

Last week's article gave a general introduction into Regulation SHO and looked at a pilot program suspending a price test for specified securities and the uniform locate requirement.

--Simon Gleeson, partner at Allen & Overy in London, philosophizing on the impact of regulations and guidance papers.

The debt package backing the buyout of World Directories, the Dutch telephone directories business, looks set to be the toughest test yet of the bull run in leveraged loans.

India's exports nearly tripled in the 1990s. Decomposing export growth shows that it has been driven by incumbent firms rather than the entry of new firms.

This paper analyzes the factors behind the recent growth of India's services sector. The high growth of services output in the 1990s was mostly due to the rapid expansion of communication, banking, business services (including the IT sector) and community services.

Ishrat Husain: Future challenges facing South Asian economies.

Deutsche Bank last week sweetened a $150 million offering for US LEC Corp., a telecom provider, in the wake of investor resistance.