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There's nothing quite like entering a room full of well-heeled bankers wearing Viking hats and fighting with plastic swords to the accompaniment of a live band and lashings of Brennivín — Icelandic schnapps made out of fermented potato pulp, also known as the "black death".
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The alternative and emerging currency bond markets felt a burst of activity this week, confounding predictions that last week's fall in the Icelandic króna would lead to a generalised sell-off of high yielding debt.
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Morgan Stanley is marketing a unique $106m collateralised debt obligation that applies structured finance to a completely new field — microfinance, or ultra-small scale banking in developing countries.
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Morgan Stanley is marketing a unique $106m collateralised debt obligation that applies structured finance to a completely new field — microfinance, or ultra-small scale banking in developing countries.
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Participants in the US hybrid capital market cheered Mizuho on yesterday (Thursday) as it sacrificed size to avoid having to pay a huge spread on a tier one deal that fell victim to the disastrous performance of Washington Mutual's tier one issue last Friday.
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There were some new LBO names in the European sector this week. Pilkington Glass, the British glass firm, which has been independent for 180 years, narrowed in the CDS market after its takeover by Nippon Sheet Glass was announced. It moved from 68bp/73bp to trade in the sub-50bp region before closing yesterday (Thursday) at 50bp/55bp.
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Goldman Sachs and Citigroup will complete the largest and most ambitious equity block trade of the year so far today (Friday), when they price a 20% stake in South Africa's Gold Fields, which is likely to fetch $2bn-$2.1bn.