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--Mark McGoldrick, head of U.S. leveraged finance at the Bank of Ireland, on his middle-market group taking on more lead arranger roles.

Panelists were spying a volume jolt from the first roll of the asset-backed securities index ABX in July.

BNP Paribas has tapped two fixed income sales pros from Deutsche Bank in London to beef up marketing to the Middle East.

Several hundred people gathered at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York last week for the American Securitization Forum's 2006 Annual Meeting.

Hedge funds long protection/short the underlying bonds on the U.K.-based airports operator BAA were quick to reverse positions this week on news the company had accepted a takeover bid.

Calyon last week launched the first retail credit-linked note for the New Zealand market with capital protection.

Calyon's Guillaume Kaminer, head of index trading in the equity derivatives group in Hong Kong, has left, adding to the wave of equity departures at the firm this year in Asia.

Collateralized debt obligation managers increasingly are moving from cash to hybrid and fully synthetic asset-backed CDOs, panelists said.

Citigroup has recently transferred Michael Walker, head of equity structured products in Sydney, to Hong Kong to fill a new role as Asia-Pacific head of warrants.

Mike Egerton, a director in U.K. financial institutions sales at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in London, has left the firm.