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Deutsche Bank has hired Greg Berman, v.p. in the firm's quantitative products engineering group in New York, from Citigroup.

Investors were piling into U.S. dollar/yen options last week, after the Japanese currency gained against the greenback, sending short-dated implied volatility higher.

Goldman Sachs is transferring David Ryan, managing director responsible for volatility flow sales, from London to Hong Kong.

HSBC has been rolling out managed principal-protected equity tranche deals as it looks to raise its credit derivatives profile in the region.

Investors in Asian equity have started moving away from more exotic structured products to more simple flow derivatives as positive market sentiment in the region increases.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association is preparing a draft protocol for settlement of credit events, after failing to garner support for its net physical settlement proposal last month.

HVB Credit Advisors, a division of HVB Group, has added its first public synthetic collateralized debt obligation to its management portfolio.

--Warren Kwan, former head of Bank of China International in Hong Kong, on the role he is about to take up at Standard Bank.

Adam Green, until recently co-head of North American equity structured investments marketing at JPMorgan in New York, has resigned from the firm and will reportedly join Lehman Brothers.

Korea Development Bank has been talking with regulators about launching a won-denominated domestic credit derivatives market, potentially before year-end.