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  • 2005 was a key year for UK-based bank HBOS. The issuer set out to optimize its capital structure and successfully achieved this by launching a number of eye-catching transactions which were praised by market participants. And indeed, they voted HBOS best financial institution of the year in EuroWeek's 2005 Top Borrowers' Poll. Hélène Durand examines the issuer's strategy.
  • HSBC's origins in Asia and its long presence in the region's markets give it an enviable platform for its local currency bonds business. It capitalised on these strengths in 2005 and was voted best bookrunner of Asian currency bonds by the region's borrowers and best overall lead manager of Asian currency bonds by the investment banks. Adam Harper looks at the bank's record in Asia's patchwork of markets.
  • Vietnam eclipsed all other Asian deals to win the title of best Asian bond in EuroWeek's Investment Banks' Poll. It also won the award for best bond from an Asian sovereign or quasi-sovereign issuer in both that poll and the Investors' Poll. Adam Harper surveys a remarkable debut.
  • As one of the most prolific issuers in the capital markets, the European Investment Bank is never shy when it comes to innovation or simply raising large amounts of debt. In 2005 the bank priced the first 30 year deal from a supranational in the euro market, and comfortably managed to hit its Eu55bn annual borrowing target. Hélène Durand reports.
  • Royal Bank of Scotland has a big balance sheet and has never been afraid to use it, but showed during 2005 that there is more to a successful loan syndications desk than deep pockets. In doing so, it won EuroWeek's most impressive arranger of syndicated loans and best arranger of LBO financing polls. Nick Briggs reports.
  • Bankers gave a cautious welcome to Telefónica's £18.5bn facility to back its acquisition of O2 when Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Royal Bank of Scotland launched it in November.
  • 2005 was a vintage year for Gazprom in the debt capital markets. Russia's state owned gas monopoly towered above its peers to raise a record volume of money in the syndicated loan market, and more than punched its weight in bonds.
  • EUROWEEK'S ANNUAL year end poll of over 100 leading international bond issuers is closely followed as an account of which banks have been getting it right in the debt capital markets. To find out who should be patting themselves on the back, and who should be kicking themselves, read on...
  • For this award, we asked the leading investment banks in the Euromarket to choose the peers they respected — or envied — most during 2005.
  • Which borrowers most impressed fixed income investment bankers in 2005? The bankers sent us their votes; now read on to find out the results.