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Baring Asset Management will manage its first synthetic collateralized debt obligation fully dedicated to emerging markets.

Bear Stearns has launched an fx derivatives trading desk in Asia and is looking to bulk up the effort with hires in the coming months.

Investors are piling into structures that will guard against what they see as the imminent turn in the credit cycle.

The imminent release of master agreements in China is being eagerly awaited by officials who expect them to give greater certainty to the nascent onshore market.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is restructuring its core consumer price index futures contract and over-the-counter inflation traders are hopeful this will boost the flagging swaps market.

Bear Stearns has recently started marketing in Asia a capital guaranteed structure linked to the performance of a basket of water-related companies.

Dealers are asking rating agencies to rate the coupon component of constant proportion portfolio insurance notes because more ratings-based investors are looking to buy into the credit strategy.

Deutsche Bank has tapped Arie Boleslawski, global head of structured credit trading at SG Corporate & Investment Banking in London, for a senior trading slot.

Next week, Fitch Ratings will release a model for rating synthetic collateralized debt obligation combination notes.

A deluge of credit derivative product companies is set to hit the market over the next year and some are looking to attain banking licenses, said panelists discussing CDO innovation.

Goldman Sachs has established a third-party distribution group in Hong Kong targeting the growth in private banking clients in Asia.