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Lehman Brothers has hired Adam Habib, an ex-managing director and head of European structured retail products at Credit Suisse in London.

SG Corporate & Investment Banking is marketing a constant proportion debt obligation with long and short buckets.

In Europe, the French house is marketing its first synthetic collateralized debt obligation of European asset-backed securities.

SG Corporate & Investment Banking is marketing in Europe and the U.S. its first synthetic collateralized loan obligation of U.S. leveraged loans.

A spike in credit-default swap trading volumes on the back of the buyout of Aussie airline Qantas Airways has some credit traders hoping the region could see a rapid increase in CDS flows.

*Vintage Filings caused a stir Monday afternoon when Jeremy Piven stopped by its booth. The star of HBO's Entourage posed for photographs and signed autographs for eager attendees who dropped a business card in Vintage Filings' box. The ratio of men to women in a 20 foot radius was lopsided in favor of the ladies--perhaps the only time during the whole conference.

Not all buysiders are swallowing the market maker pitch surrounding the tranched ABX index to be launched Feb. 14.

UBS in London is marketing investment notes linked to tailor-made property and commodity indices.

Traders in the foreign exchange markets were positioning for major yen appreciation last week after U.S. Treasury secretary Henry Paulson said he is watching the yen very carefully.

State Street Global Advisors is starting to market globally its first public managed synthetic investment-grade collateralized debt obligation.

A new interdealer derivative index referencing spreads in the agency hybrid adjustable-rate mortgage market will launch in March and test runs will start this week.

--Tony Venutolo, executive director in structured credit products at SG Corporate & Investment Banking in London, explains why the firm may upsize a collateralized debt obligation of European asset-backed securities it is marketing.