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Halcyon Asset Management is co-marketing a first-of-a-kind long-short collateralized debt obligation with Deutsche Bank, which structured the deal.

--Sean O'Connor, senior v.p. in structured finance at Dominion Bond Rating Service in New York, explaining the agency's review of minimum liquidity requirements for leveraged super senior deals.

Barclays Capital has tapped Pascal Hery, a senior credit derivative salesman to hedge funds at Deutsche Bank in London.

Brevan Howard Asset Management, a London-based hedge fund, has hired a senior hedge fund-linked salesman from KBC Financial Products in New York. Joe Maclean has joined Brevan Howard in New York, reportedly in a business development role similar to that of Stephen Stonberg, previously a credit sales head at JPMorgan in London (DW, 7/28). Maclean did not respond immediately to a phone message.

Traders and analysts expect the creation this fall of a loan-only credit-default swap index to boost volume and liquidity in single-name LCDS trading.

TD Securities is following up on its first structured investment offering in the U.S. with another similar deal. The first, a reverse convertible note linked to E*Trade stock (DW, 7/7), raised USD697,000, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

Deutsche Bank has added three equity derivative sales officials in New York.

Calyon has signed up Heidi Plewe, a structured credit marketer at SG Corporate & Investment Banking in London, to cover sales to Germany and Austria. Plewe referred calls to the press office where Virginie Ouycere, spokeswoman, confirmed the role is a new one.

Barclays Capital has tapped Pascal Hery, a senior credit derivatives salesman to hedge funds at Deutsche Bank in London.

Financial Stocks is considering a possible standalone foray into the collateralized loan obligation market and the asset-backed securities, collateralized debt obligation market.

-- Jon Kline, Sunstone Hotel Investors cfo, about always looking for cheaper pricing on its financings.

Banks are starting to prepare some of the larger collateralized loan managers for what is expected to be about $16 billion in debt to back the leveraged buyout of health care operator HCA.