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Captain D's $270 million term loan "B" broke at 101 1/4 in the secondary market.

Bank of America and ING Barings last Tuesday launched syndication of a $405 million credit for WorldTravel BTI to fund the acquisition of SYNERGI, a business travel network.

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Deutsche Bank has signed up Neil Servis, director and head of European CDOs and structured credit syndicate at Citigroup in London. Servis declined comment when reached on his cell. He will report to Fritz Thomas, managing director and head of European and Asian syndicated CDOs, and Michael Raynes, managing director and co-head of global securitized products group in New York. Both were traveling and did not return messages by press time. Further details of his role could not be immediately determined.

Citigroup's head of equity structured products in New York has moved on after two months in the job.

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Deutsche Bank has hired Filippo Lanza, senior credit portfolio manager and credit derivatives trader at hedge fund Ferox Capital Management in London. Reached at Deutsche Bank, Lanza declined all comment and details of his role could not immediately be determined. Credit officials say he reports to co-heads of global structured credit trading Bertrand Des Pallieres and Antonio Di Flumeri, who is also European head of credit derivatives. The pair did not return calls by press time.

Merrill Lynch has bulked up derivative sales in Hong Kong with a wave of hires. Gary Hung, marketer at UBS, joins as a director in the strategic solutions group, and Edouard Hoepffner, v.p. and Wendy Cheung, associate, both marketers at Deutsche Bank, join as a director and associate, respectively, in the same group, according to firm officials. The trio report to Abhinav Gorawara, managing director in the strategic solutions group in Hong Kong. Gorawara did not return messages by press time.

Declining equity volatility in recent weeks has taken the sails out of the structured note market in Korea as pricing has become less attractive. "Single-stock vol has declined sharply," said an official at ABN AMRO. For example, realized volatility on Shinhan Financial Group has fallen from around 40% last year to 25%. It has become difficult to price equity-linked notes--a massive local business in the last few years--at attractive levels. "The margin for a deal we were holding and preparing to issue was wiped out within three days," said a senior equity derivatives marketer at a bulge bracket house.