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Nationwide will launch its first covered bond next week, with a Eu2bn triple-A rated deal expected via Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.

Banco Popular Español looks set to sign its Eu4bn multicurrency EuroCP programme and is expected to issue the first tranche from the shelf by mid-December.

Network Rail established itself firmly alongside its peer group in the sterling market this week by pricing a new 25 year bond flat to where the traditional Gilt surrogate, the European Investment Bank, trades at the long end of the sterling curve.

The International Index Company (IIC) this week unveiled the iTraxx SDI-75, a new sterling CDS index. Market participants believe it will help pull UK real money accounts into the credit derivatives market.

Five years ago this week, EuroWeek broke the news that Nomura's principal finance group (PFG), led by Guy Hands, looked set to make a breakthrough in its long campaign to buy the housing estate of Deutsche Bahn, the German railway company.

We felt that the Euromarkets had turned full circle when we read that Sir Peter Ogden and his pal, Philip Hulme, were considering buying back Computacenter, the firm they founded more than 20 years ago.

The once glorious house of Cazenove reminds us of an iceberg drifting into the waters of global warming. As an iceberg, Cazenove could probably never have sunk the Titanic, or even a rowing boat on the Serpentine, but it had a certain grace.

From freezing Edinburgh, where the icy wind whips in from the Firth of Forth in search of bare knees below the local kilts, we hear murmurs of dissension. Are the clans about to rebel for the first time since 1745? Will the claymore wielding Scottish hordes come surging south and threaten the inhabitants of Hemel Hempstead and Beaconsfield?

Depfa has fallen Eu3bn short of its Eu8bn target for issuing benchmark bonds this year, after abandoning its attempt to sell Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG in April.

The European Investment Bank this week became the first international borrower to issue a Eurobond in Botswanan pulas.