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Amaranth Securities, the Greenwich, Conn.-based hedge fund giant, has lost senior equity volatility traders Todor Delev and MiaoDan Wu.

Wolfgang Schubert, a director responsible for structuring collateralized loan obligations at Merrill Lynch in New York, has resigned.

Longer-dated managed synthetic collateralized debt obligations on global portfolios are gaining steam in Japan since accounting changes brought new investors to the market.

Rabobank's structured product portfolio management team is to manage a hybrid asset-backed securities long-short collateralized debt obligation.

Calyon in Hong Kong has launched a China-themed retail equity-linked note featuring downside protection.

SG Corporate & Investment Banking has reportedly signed up Cedric Lespiau, a correlation trader at IXIS Corporate & Investment Banking in Paris.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, together with the International Capital Market Association, is looking to raise awareness of documentation discrepancies between terms for notes and embedded derivatives.

Over-the-counter credit derivatives regulation in the U.S. is effected through:

UBS and Paris-based AXA Investment Managers closed a second tap of a collateralized debt obligation equity fund July 21.

UBS has hired Christine Harris, a v.p. at Citigroup, as a director in U.S. equity derivative sales focusing on third-party marketing.

A crash in implied volatility across the major currency pairs was the focal point of a quiet week in European fx options.

Jeremy Vogelmann, Lehman Brothers' loan-only credit default swap trader, left the firm earlier this week.