Leak table, 23 February 2001

There has been a lull in terms of desk-swapping recently, but a storm has swept in. Robert Mohamed, after five years documenting Deutsche's MTNs, is returning to Merrill. He gets a healthy new pay cheque as well as a nice new title: head of money market origination. And Tarik Senhaji has left SG and MTNs. He is the second person to abscond in two weeks, but unlike JP Morgan's Rupert Lewis, who ran off to play in the snow in Chamonix, France, Tarik is settling for a life of hedonism on a derivatives desk somewhere. Good luck Tarik. The more content MTNers in the market were to be found living it up at Islandsbanki-FBAs Thorrablot party on Wednesday night. The whole Barclays crowd was there, with Nabil Abooze-alot, Apose-alot Saflekos and Oliver 'man mountain' Johnson all doing their best to outdrink each other in order to show new girl, Monja Blattner, just how MTNers let their hair down. Also there was CSFB's Simon Hill, Salomon's Richard Proudlove and Morgan Stanley's Klaus Svendsen. Having won MTNWeek's Best New Borrower Award in 1999 the FBA hosts, fronted by Bill Symington, decided to treat us all to dried haddock, shark meat and sheep testicles at Waterstones' Red Room in Piccadilly. But it was all a bit much for one young Thorrablotter, who got thoroughly blottoed and ended the evening redecorating the carpet. Leak thinks Simon Hill should have driven him home in his new Ferrari 550, but then again, can second -hand Ferraris go fast enough for London traffic?

• 23 Feb 2001