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Instituto de Crédito Oficial, the Spanish government financing agency, paid a rare visit to the euro denominated market this week, issuing a Eu1bn long three year bond, its first in the currency since May 2003.

Soaring gold prices and investors' continuing love affair with Kazakhstan pushed ING's $175.5m London flotation of Kazakhgold to a successful close last night (Thursday).

We thought we'd heard the last of DrKW's boys and girls and their two-wheeled toys, but this week one of our spies told us that Benjamin Lamberg was having trouble keeping hold of his.

The Hong Kong real estate investment trust market began with a bang last Saturday (November 19) when the government's Housing Authority floated Link Reit for HK$19.4bn ($2.5bn) in the world's biggest IPO of a property trust.

Persimmon, the UK house builder, has mandated Barclays, Lloyds TSB and Royal Bank of Scotland to arrange a £1.9bn acquisition facility that will be launched early next year.

Andrew Pisker resigned as chief executive of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein yesterday (Thursday), lending support to market speculation that he had been passed over for the new job of head of Dresdner Bank's corporate and investment banking division.

Andrew Pisker resigned as chief executive of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein yesterday (Thursday), lending support to market speculation that he had been passed over for the new job of head of Dresdner Bank's corporate and investment banking division.

Financial institutions moved to take advantage of the continuing width of sterling swap spreads this week. Wells Fargo brought a £750m five year bond and Morgan Stanley sold a £325m 10 year. Both transactions were swapped.

A fresh round of volatility hit the car sector in the US this week after Moody's threatened to remove Ford Motor Credit's investment grade rating and General Motors failed to impress the market with news of plant closures and 30,000 job cuts.