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--James Kao, manager in the international investment department at Shin Kong Life Insurance Co., one of Taiwan's largest insurers, commenting on the impact of recent regulation change.

Goldman Sachs has hired Asif Khan, a structured credit derivatives sales staffer at Credit Suisse First Boston, in a similar role.

Gen Re Financial Products has hired Matthew Nelson, head of the U.S. dollar options book at The Royal Bank of Scotland, as co-head of trading in the U.S.

Seoul-based Korea Development Bank recently entered interest rate and cross-currency interest rate swaps on the back of a JPY65 billion (USD587 million) samurai bond.

U.K. life insurance companies are likely to increase their use of over-the-counter derivatives next year if a proposed regulation change comes into force.

Implied volatility can be viewed as a stock's average expected future realized volatility.

Sarasin Investment Management has issued a capital protected instrument to offer investors exposure to its flagship fund, 'GlobalSar Sterling Balanced Fund'.

The price of protection on Russian sovereign debt jumped some 15 basis points after a clamp-down on money laundering forced a domestic bank to close its doors.

Singapore's OCBC Bank is planning to kick-start a credit derivatives operation by year-end.

Ron Tanemura is retiring as global co-head of credit derivatives at Goldman Sachs in New York.

Bankers at credit derivative houses in Asia are abuzz with the prospects of a dramatic increase in business in collateralized debt obligations in Taiwan after a regulatory change that will permit insurers to buy synthetic CDOs.

Scott Prince, co-head of the U.S. equity products group and head of convertibles and equity derivatives trading and risk at Goldman Sachs in New York, has left the firm.