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-- Scott Graeff, treasurer of Luna Innovations, on choosing Silicon Valley Bank for the company's credit facility.

JPMorgan bested Credit Suisse in a series of semi-athletic, fully-alcohol-related games last Thursday at Slate bar in Manhattan.

A group of seven banks, led by Credit Suisse and Citigroup, held a senior managing agent meeting for the leveraged buyout of First Data Corp. [Banks launched a $5 billion B2 tranche of the financing in August. The $5 billion B1 and the $3 billion B3 tranches followed. All three tranches were trading in the 96 context by October. Last Thursday, the B1 was trading at 92.648-93.284, the B2 at 92.650-93.325 and the B3 at 92.703-93.391, according to Markit.]

The following charts show the top five advancers and decliners in terms of % moves in the loan, bond and credit default swap markets for the previous week.

Dealers of private EMTNs: Non-syndicated deals for less than $250m excluding financial repackaged SPVs, self-led deals and issues with a term of less than 365 days.

Municipality Finance priced its first Kauri deal yesterday (Thursday) with a small trade executed through Bank of New Zealand, but higher-yielding emerging market currencies remained most popular with non-core investors.

MORE details have emerged on the merger of Omicron Investment Management and Aurelius Capital.

The covered bond market roared back to life this week, packing Eu6.75bn of issuance into three heady days with more to follow today (Friday).

German engineering firm Siemens raised Eu1.1bn in its first benchmark-sized Schuldschein deal this week, pricing more than double its initial expected size at the tight end of guidance. But some bankers debated whether it could have achieved an even better price in the bond market.

Société Générale opened the books on its debut five year public sector obligations foncières yesterday (Thursday) that is due to be priced by midday today (Friday).

Following last week’s hiatus, the Swiss franc bond market came alive this week with a flurry of deals that were successfully executed, leaving most issues fully sold with little paper left on lead managers’ books.

Carlyle Group and Deutsche Bank priced a Eu400m CLO, CELF V, last Monday.