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With securities houses and investment banks reporting earnings that almost match the dizzy profits of the first quarter of 2006, why have the main Japanese securities houses been left out in the cold?

Like the rest of the MTN market, Leak had been looking forward to receiving Glitnir's traditional invitation to its Thorrablót party at the end of February.

What is Merrill Lynch up to now? A fortnight ago we were told that Dow Kim, the head of capital markets and much more besides, had been paid the equivalent of $37m, and that Greg Fleming, the head of investment banking and Wall Street's answer to Peter Pan, was being paid $34m.

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten brought a C$500m 12 year bond this week — its largest ever offering in the Maple market.

Credit derivatives broker GFI said this week that the claim made in a recent press release by Creditex that it completed the "first electronic tradeable tranche fixing" on January 31 was false.

After a quiet couple of weeks, the Swiss franc market picked up speed this week.