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More than 6,000 securitization professionals descended on Las Vegas last week for the American Securitization Forum's flagship gathering at the Venetian Hotel.

The Carlyle Group founder Bill Conway wishes his firm had been more aggressive over the last few years, even though it invested $10-15 billion in equity.

--Robert Mingoia, treasurer at Oceaneering, on the $50 million increase to the company's revolver.

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Bank of America finally folded to the pressure of waiving assignment fees.

The market is being flooded with repricings, with some names back after a year-and-a-half and others back just months after initial syndication.

This chart, provided by Citigroup Global Markets, tracks bid-ask prices for par credit facilities that trade in the secondary market.

The Univision bank group was busy last week pre-marketing the almost $8 billion worth of loans to some banks and a select group of larger accounts.

The following charts show the top five advancers and decliners in terms of % moves in the loan, bond and credit default swap markets for the previous week.

Lehman Brothers has hired Adam Habib, an ex-managing director and head of European structured retail products at Credit Suisse in London. Habib could not be reached and his new role and reporting line could not immediately be determined. It could also not be determined whether Habib left CS to go to Lehman. He left CS in October.

FriedbergMilstein has engaged GSO Capital Partners as a sub-advisor to three of its funds. The deal was effective as of Monday.

Last week's Learning Curve introduced the gamma model as a replacement to the base correlation approach.