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German luxury car maker Porsche became the latest European company to issue a hybrid capital this week, and the deal was hailed as a success after investors overcame their concerns about Porsche's unrated status.

Equity capital markets bankers this week gave a cautious welcome to moves by Russia's stock market regulator to improve liquidity in the country's domestic markets, as they eagerly await the first deals to emerge from the bulging pipeline of Russian IPOs.

The big story in 2005 in Swiss franc bonds was the concentration of transactions at the longer end of the curve, as investors made duration bids for increased yield in the face of falling rates.

Equity capital market specialists in Tokyo were cautiously confident this week that the slump in the Tokyo Stock Exchange's main indices would not damage the new issues market, and particularly the $5.4bn stock offering by Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, set to be priced next week.

The Bank of Ireland will issue in the dollar markets for the first time today (Friday) with what looks set to be a blowout $600m-$800m upper tier two capital issue.

In super-chic Connecticut and the area around Stamford and Greenwich, which may soon qualify as a financial centre in its own right, you need $100m to be considered middle class.

The synthetic ABS index, designated ABX, was launched this week by Markit and CDS Indexco and has been taking the market by storm.

The new year has begun with speculation about the future of two non-core dollar bond markets — Canadian and New Zealand dollars.

The Bank of Ireland will issue in the dollar markets for the first time today (Friday) with what looks set to be a blowout $600m-$800m upper tier two capital issue.