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Royal Vendex, a Dutch non-food retailer, could provide the deal that re-opens the European high-yield floodgates after the August lull as soon as this week, with a €350 million deal lead-managed by Citigroup and ING Bank.

This chart, provided by Citigroup Global Markets, tracks bid-ask prices for par credit facilities that trade in the secondary market. It also tracks facility amounts, ratings, pricing and maturities.

Swedish mortgage lenders are readying to enter the covered bond market, with the first issuance out of Sweden expected by the beginning of next year.

The recent run-up in the price of oil and the Treasury market's counter-intuitive rally marks a full reversal of the traditional relationship between energy prices and bond yields.

M&G Investment Management is focusing on commercial mortgage-backed securities and whole business deals within the securitization area, according to Robert Marshall, director in fixed interest credit research in London.

The high-yield bonds of Heckler & Koch, a German handgun and small-arms manufacturer, rose last week after the company announced a five-year, $26 million contract for handguns with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The Australian Securities & Investments Commission has filed its first ever civil court proceedings alleging insider trading.

Scottish & Newcastle, an international brewing group in the U.K., has converted a sterling denominated fixed-rate bond into a synthetic floating-rate euro liability.

Barclays Capital's Mitchell Lim, head of Hong Kong dollar interest rate trading, has joined Singapore's United Overseas Bank, in a senior trading role in Hong Kong for the domestic interest rate derivatives market.

BNP Paribas has hired Shahzad Malik, v.p. in structured products at JPMorgan in Singapore, in a new role as a senior structurer for Southeast Asia in the Lion City.

Credit derivatives professionals are seeing initial interest for options and tranches linked to the recently launched credit sub-indexes in Asia and expect the first deals to hit within the coming weeks.