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Fund managers unwilling to commit to emerging markets in the wake of recent market volatility

Toronto-based rating agency Dominion Bond Rating Service has appointed Apea Koranteng, former global head of structured capital markets at ABN AMRO, to head a new structured finance group in London.

Investors are starting to put some muscle into their push to resist the wave of repricings that have gripped the market.

Aspect Software hit the bank market last week for a $1.16 billion deal to pay its sponsors, Golden Gate Capital and Oak Investment Partners, a $450 million dividend and refinance existing debt.

David Reilly and Ujjaval Desai, managing directors and global co-heads of CLOs, CSOs and CDOs at JPMorgan in London, have quit to launch an asset management business.

The U.S. Open may be two weeks away, but market players were already in the golf mood.

--Michael Provenzano, executive v.p. and cfo of Aspect Software, on how the company was able to shave 175 basis points off the pricing of its second lien.

Chatter began again that General Growth Properties would look to try and reprice its $2 billion "B" loan after its first attempt to bypass its lead banks for a 50 basis point cut did not work.

The following charts show the top five advancers and decliners in terms of % moves in the loan, bond and credit default swap markets for the previous week.

HSBC is rolling out the latest in a series of leveraged super senior transactions it debuted last summer.

Merrill Lynch's Taro Masuyama, head of credit sales and marketing for Japan, is retiring to spend more time with his family.