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  • Merrill Lynch is readying a proprietary trading desk in Tokyo and has recently brought over two Royal Bank of Scotland veterans to launch the effort.
  • BNP Paribas has hired a pair of Scandinavian derivatives sales staffers from JPMorgan in London.
  • Morgan Stanley has lost Wayne Wennick and Karl Faker, senior salesmen in its hedge fund sales team in London. Faker is moving to Goldman Sachs in a similar role, and Wennick is joining Merrill Lynch.
  • Morgan Stanley is bringing aboard Helena Chen, fixed income and derivatives marketer at Crédit Lyonnais in Taipei, in a similar role for its Hong Kong desk.
  • The Singapore branch of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg has hired Frank Tsai, former head of structured products at Macquarie Bank in Sydney, to head its new structured product business in Asia.
  • LG Insurance, one of Korea's largest insurers with over KRW40 trillion (USD34.5 billion) in assets, is considering making its first investment in synthetic collateralized debt obligations in the coming months.
  • The risk of the derivatives markets destabilizing in the event of a major derivatives dealer blowing up dominated the panel sessions at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association's annual general meeting at Chicago last week, and panelists and delegates appeared united in the view that this risk is overstated and believe that dealers adequately account for it.
  • Deephaven Capital Management, a U.S. fund manager with USD2.2 billion in assets, will enter both equity and credit derivative trades in its event arbitrage fund, launched this month.
  • SG Corporate & Investment Banking is planning to expand its equity derivatives flow sales to institutions to capitalize on this increasingly active market sector, said David Escoffier, head of equity derivatives in London.
  • Globally, the continued squeeze on credit-default spreads has made it increasingly difficult for banks to arrange synthetic CDO transactions which offer sufficient return to attract investors (particularly for the equity tranche) whilst allowing the swap counterparty to retain a sufficient yield.
  • Portfolio managers at commercial banks are holding back from entering legitimate trades because of concerns that market participants might think they are allowing information to flow through the Chinese wall.
  • The Department of U.S. Treasury is appealing to the derivatives industry to come up with instruments institutions could use to hedge the risk of financial losses associated with a terrorist attack.