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The Federal Republic of Germany will launch its long-awaited inflation-linked bond debut next week, a Eu5.5bn 10 year issue that will cement the product's place in the mainstream of the euro debt market.

HSBC has increased the senior borrowing capacity of its structured investment vehicle Cullinan. It issued an extra $370m of income notes this week, bringing the total to $1.02bn. The notes will settle in late March.

Daiwa Securities SMBC and Nikko Citigroup put out initial price guidance on Wednesday for the Republic of Hungary's ¥25bn ($215m) seven year samurai bond.

Swedish investment group Investor AB bucked the trend in the European corporate bond market this week and priced a deal without change of control protection, something investors have been clamouring for as more companies attract the attention of private equity firms.

Kingdom Hotel Investments, the luxury hotel group controlled by Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, capped its impressive $397.2m IPO with a strong debut on the Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX) this week.

ABN Amro has unveiled a new mortgage securitisation programme, through which it plans to become a regular issuer in the public and private ABS markets. The bank recently launched the first trade off the shelf, totalling Eu3.9bn and parcelling loans it made to its own employees.

Allied Irish Banks will bring more domestic weight to the Irish covered bond market soon with the launch of its first asset covered security.

Ever since BNP Paribas threw caution to the winds and made a bid out of the blue for Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, the barflies in Paris have been speculating whether Société Générale would stage its own counter-attack.

Investors' appetite for senior financial institution bonds was as keen as ever this week, as Italian banks replaced the Spanish issuers that have dominated the market recently.

Caisse d'Amortissement de la Dette Sociale took the limelight this week in a quiet supranational, sovereign and agency bond market.

Bank of America has lost its head of international capital markets, JC Perrig.