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Static constant proportion debt obligations referencing a basket of names rated A to AAA, as opposed to investment-grade indices, are in firms' crosshairs.

Merrill Lynch in the U.S. is preparing to offer investments linked to an equity volatility arbitrage index it launched last week.

A U.S. appeals court in New York has overturned a lower court decision that the industry said undermined credit-default swap contracts.

Merrill Lynch has launched Asian and Japanese research indexes that it is taking to investors in the form of over-the-counter structured investments.

Hedge funds were snapping up short-dated options across yen pairs last week ahead of this weekend's Group of Seven industrialized nations meeting, causing a spike in one-week implied volatility.

Hedge funds are increasingly selling credit-default protection on bank loans to corporates in emerging markets as a way of gaining exposure to this high-yielding debt.

Carl Icahn's USD2.6 billion bid for the chunk of Lear Corp. he doesn't already control had investors piling into steepeners on the auto equipment supplier.

JPMorgan is reorganizing its derivative sales forces to create a global retail-focused cross-asset class group.

Merrill Lynch has beefed up its Asian equity structures marketing team with two hires by Abhinav Gorawara, managing director of equity structured solutions in Hong Kong.