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Daiwa SMBC is considering structuring notes on emerging market currencies as clients are becoming more comfortable looking overseas for yield.

--Ravi Sood, president and coo of Lawrence Asset Management in Toronto, explaining how a commodities boom has prompted a surge in demand for the firm's Canadian-focused hedge funds.

HSBC last week hired Susan Lee, marketer at Citigroup in Hong Kong, in a new role as director in the investor sales group in Hong Kong.

Credit spreads on the main European iTraxx index dipped below 30 basis points on Monday for the first time in three months.

JPMorgan has reorganized its structured credit businesses in New York, bringing together sales and origination.

Morgan Stanley in London has nabbed Alex Kirgiannakis, a flow credit-default swap trader at Deutsche Bank.

An index of credit-default swaps on preferred securities is set to start trading next month.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has tapped Peter Furlong, a credit-default swap trader at Morgan Stanley in London.

Hedgestreet, an online exchange based in San Mateo, Calif., launched financial contracts last Monday allowing investors to hedge against hurricane damage.

HSBC's Ferdy Khouw, head of investor sales for Asia in Hong Kong, is joining RBC Capital Markets.