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JPMorgan has hired Fater Belbachir, v.p. in global equities, from Credit Suisse in London.

Merrill Lynch in Toronto has hired Pat Chiefalo, an analyst at hedge fund Waterfall Investments, for a new role covering structured derivative sales to institutions.

Credit-default swap spreads on British media group Pearson blew out last week after reports Wednesday it was being targeted for a leveraged buyout.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has hired two staffers in Asia for its credit structuring and collateralized debt obligation team in Hong Kong and Tokyo.

RBC Capital Markets is marketing globally its first hybrid and first fully synthetic asset-backed securities collateralized debt obligations.

A number of indices that will allow commercial real estate to be traded synthetically have been launched over the past few months.

Aktie-Ansvar is shopping for structured products in which to invest.

Corporate pension plans in the U.S. may be driven to use inflation hedges, according to wishful bankers and dealers.

High volatility across issuers in the structured finance collateralized debt obligation market has firms pitching relative value trade ideas that put credit-default swaps on CDO tranches against the single names found in the deals.

--Eric Goodison, partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, on why lenders may not like equity cure rights written into commitment letters.

Dayl Pearson, president and ceo of Kohlberg Capital Corp., took a turn ringing the NASDAQ closing bell Jan.

Investors waited to hear from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court regarding the $2 billion debtor-in-possession loan for Calpine Corp. led by Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse.