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U.S. hedge funds and prop desks are increasingly selling straddles on Euro STOXX 50 realized variance.

A wave of early redemptions on structured equity products has hit Asia, as a result of continuing gains in regional stock markets.

Goldman Sachs in London has hired Laurent Bouaziz, head of the new products group at BNP Paribas.

ING Wholesale Banking has received an additional quota for the onshore China A-share market, which firms have been using to structure market access products.

Hedge fund-linked derivative desks in the U.S. are looking at ways around a hedge fund liquidity crunch caused by rising lockup periods.

Jefferies & Co. in New York has hired an equity derivatives trading head and senior trader from Goldman Sachs.

The European iTraxx credit indices volumes eclipsed trading on single names last week.

JPMorgan has structured a 15-year synthetic collateralized debt obligation in which synthetic exposure to a pool of corporates is substituted after seven years with the deal's collateral.

JPMorgan in Asia has created an integrated team to focus on trading exotic products with credit, rate, fx and simple equity index underlying, especially hybrid transactions.

Morgan Stanley has recruited Kevin Lepsoe, associate director in the credit and rates structuring group at Barclays Capital in Hong Kong, for a new role.