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Deutsche Bank is transferring a senior fund-linked derivatives staff member to a new role in Tokyo. Gareth James, responsible for fund derivatives in London, will head fund derivatives structuring and origination in Asia. A date for the move and further details could not immediately be determined and James was traveling and could not be reached for comment.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association will hold two auctions to cash settle credit default swaps referencing Dura Operating Corp.'s senior and subordinated bonds.

Distressed debt investors are casing the second-lien loan market, where they see increased liquidity and opportunities arising from court battles with first-lien lenders.

Ilex Asset Management, the London-based credit hedge fund firm, plans to jump on opportunities in leveraged loans and structured products as it seeks to boost assets under management.

It seems as though ghouls and goblins scared some Wall Streeters out of the office early last Tuesday.

--Anthony Vasconcellos, cfo at Regent Communications, on why he's not concerned with the company's high debt leverage.

The $400 million New Orleans Employees Retirement System is considering hiring bank loan managers within the next three months.

Investors were looking for a price bump on the $450 million credit for Accellent due to the credit being levered seven times.

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

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.

ABN AMRO has launched four investment structures linked to the IPOX Shuster indices, which track initial public offerings.

UBS and other firms in the region firms are starting to market collateralized debt obligations referencing Asian debt.