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Five-year credit-default swap spreads on Lear Corp. tightened last week as better-than-expected earnings added momentum to a two-week rally.
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A dealer-client working group is forming to set up a loan credit-default swap index.
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Merrill Lynch has brought aboard Carl Im, managing director and co-head of corporate sales at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong.
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The Royal Bank of Scotland has hired Matthew Reader, executive director responsible for credit correlation at UBS in London, as global head of correlation trading in London.
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Morgan Stanley has hired Stan Liberman, a structured credit trader at HSBC in New York.
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Scotia Capital is preparing to roll out additional managed collateralized debt obligations in the coming weeks, following a recent high-profile Asian deal.
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An upsurge in mergers and acquisitions has breathed life into single stock derivatives, prompting equity houses to start talking of a year of record profits. -
Taro Goto, a senior credit-default swap trader at The Royal Bank of Scotland in London, has quit after nine months at the firm.
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South Africa's Standard Bank has swooped on a team of equity derivative specialists from Bank of China International in Hong Kong to build up an Asian equity business.
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Britannia Building Society is to hedge a three-year FTSE participation note.
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Thai equity derivative insiders are anticipating a pickup in over-the-counter equity products following the much-anticipated launch of index futures in the country.
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UBS has hired Jonathon Boos, director responsible for third-party equity derivatives marketing, from JPMorgan in New York.
