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Amixed bag of corporate, covered bond and floating rate deals were on offer to Swiss investors this week as the market began to steady itself.

Turkey’s Capital Markets Board published the Bylaw on Principles Regarding İTMK (Turkish covered bonds) on October 5, marking another regulatory step on the journey towards the first covered bond from the country.

Who took out a contract on the kind and totally God-fearing Tommy Maheras of Citigroup? Surely the days of Al Capone and Murder Inc are buried deep in the mists of time?

HSBC stays at the top of the structured note table this week, having widened its gap above Barclays Capital by about $300m.

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Fresh details of the collapse of Northern Rock were revealed this week when senior staff members were called before the UK’s Treasury Select Committee to be questioned by members of parliament.

We were pleased to see the name of Michael Vranos back on our radar screens. You would have to have a few grey hairs to remember the final death throes of Kidder, Peabody & Co in 1994, but Mike was head of mortgage trading at Kidder and his profits kept the firm afloat when certain senior managers were doing their utmost to cause the company to self-destruct.

While plans have been announced to create a super-conduit to provide asset liquidity to structured investment vehicles (SIVs), conditions have continued to deteriorate in the SIV sector.