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The recent report from the UK’s Independent Commission on Banking makes clear that regulators and policy makers are spending much time pondering the thorny issue of banks that are seen as too big to fail.

Dealers of private EMTNs: Non-syndicated deals for less than 4250m excluding financial repackaged SPVs, self-led deals and issues with a term of less than 365 days

Dealers of private EMTNs: Non-syndicated deals for less than $250m excluding financial repackaged SPVs, GSE issuers, self-led deals and issues with a term of less than 365 days

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Abudy Taha has left Deutsche Bank and will join Credit Suisse in early July as a managing director in the leveraged loans team. At Deutsche, which he is understood to have left on April 14, he also worked on leveraged loans under Nick Jansa.

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The Republic of Ireland printed several commercial paper issues this week after having stepped up its marketing activities.

SSA borrowers have done well to take cash when it is on the table rather than wait in the hope that spreads will grind in.

Dealers of private EMTNs: Non-syndicated deals for less than $250m excluding financial repackaged SPVs, self-led deals and issues with a term of less than 365 days

If there was any surprise in this week’s capitulation by Portugal’s caretaker prime minister José Socrates it was that it has been so long coming. In the end, it was clear that the country’s own banks held a gun to the head of the interim administration, threatening a buyers’ strike that left Socrates with little option but to cave in.

Investors clamoured for dollar paper from sovereign, supranational and agency issuers this week, while the euro/dollar basis swap tightened in strongly at the short end. The demand pushed many SSA borrowers’ levels in the short end very low.

Instituto de Crédito Oficial printed its first Uridashi note since October 2009 on Thursday morning, hours after Portugal asked for a bail-out from the European Union.