Pre-migration untagged articles

Banks and investors tidied their books this week, preparing for the quarter’s end. As result, a mere Sfr700m bonds were printed this week including three Sfr50m private placements and two taps. However, activity is expected to pick up again in mid-April.

ll credit to John Varley, the sometimes reticent chief executive of Barclays Group, who for a long time has been standing on the high diving board, looking down.

GFI, the leading credit derivatives broker, is launching the first multi-broker iTraxx tranche fixing with Icap after failing to reach agreement with Creditex to deliver this service.

The Hellenic Republic issued its longest dated bonds earlier this month when it met a reverse inquiry for a Eu1bn 50 year linker from Goldman Sachs and a trio of Greek houses, it emerged this week.

Landesbank Baden-Württemberg launched the tightest ever jumbo Pfandbrief this week, albeit a rare two year public sector-backed issue, priced at 10.5bp through mid-swaps.

Royal Bank of Scotland has moved into second spot on table one following another batch of euro floaters for financial borrowers and a large long dated floater for Anglian Water.

Greece’s Capital Markets Commission this week stepped up its investigations into the sale of structured notes, as the country’s finance minister lambasted “greedy stockbrokers who took advantage of pension funds’ management to sell high risk bonds”.