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--Sören Rump, portfolio manager at Sydbank in Aabenraa, Denmark, explaining why the bank worked with Citigroup on a local-currency emerging-market collateralized debt obligation.

JPMorgan in London has hired Georges Khoueiri and Manal Kram, equity derivative salesmen to the Middle East, from Calyon in Paris.

Credit Suisse is in the market with its first synthetic collateralized debt obligation referencing the lowest portions of both the off-the-run and on-the-run ABX asset-backed securities index.

Strong flows of options-based equity investment products in Japan have dampened implied volatility on the Nikkei.

Nomura Securities is working on a series of constant proportion portfolio insurance notes that will wrap a highly levered asset-backed securities fund.

Morgan Stanley is marketing a structured note that references a stock-picking model employed by its U.S. investment strategy team.

Credit Suisse in London has hired a senior equity flow trader.

Goldman Sachs in New York has hired JPMorgan's co-head of equity structured investments.

Investors do not anticipate the proposed Standard & Poor's ratings changes will cause the uproar that the changes Moody's Investors Service proposed earlier this year did, but the topic is getting its fair share of water cooler time at investment firms.

A rash of tech deals is testing investors' appetite for risk.

--Jeff DeBoer, Lithia Motors cfo, commenting on a new credit that rolls all its existing loans into one.

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