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  • John Tierney, head of US credit derivatives research at Deutsche Bank, this week said he expects notional outstanding contracts in the credit derivatives market to reach $15tr in 2006. The rise, he says, stems from heavy trading at the synthetic index level, continued activity from existing players in the market and expansion of the end user base, including real money investors.
  • British American Tobacco was forced to pull its planned sterling bond this week, as concerns over litigation in the US made investors nervous about the sector.
  • The Eu140m refinancing facility for automotive supplier Carcoustics that was launched in July has been completed via sole bookrunner and mandated lead arranger Commerzbank.
  • Lancashire Holdings, a Bermudian reinsurance start-up, floated on Aim this week, raising $910m of equity. Merrill Lynch priced the 182m new shares on Monday at $5 or 284 pence, attracting multiple oversubscription. Investors were attracted by the sharp rises in insurance and reinsurance prices caused by this year's Atlantic hurricanes.
  • Guarantor: Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation
  • BGC, the inter-dealer voice brokerage firm, announced this week that it was intending to go live with a newly integrated voice and electronic dollar repo trading platform for primary dealers in the first quarter of next year. Initially, dealers will be able to execute and process overnight and term specials, Treasury bills or off-the-run Treasury repo trades either electronically or through voice broking capabilities.
  • Latin American companies this week rushed to wrap up their international funding plans for the year. And, with emerging market investors flush with cash and still looking for yield, three issuers placed a total of $790m of bonds. Yesterday (Thursday) morning Banco BMG, a mid-sized bank in Brazil, issued $300m of 10 year final, eight year average life 144A bonds. Morgan Stanley priced them with an attractive 9.15% coupon to yield 9.5%.
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  • The IPO of UK carbon credit trader EcoSecurities gained extra momentum this week when the US agreed to join non-binding talks on tackling climate change at the United Nations Conference in Montreal. On Tuesday, bookrunner ABN Amro priced EcoSecurities' 36m new shares at 150 pence, raising £54m. Although the price was toward the lower end of the 130p-180p indicative range, bankers on the deal said the company had achieved its aim of raising Eu80m.
  • The Republic of Colombia reopened its global TES 10 year bond this week for another Ps568bn ($250m), and allowed local investors to participate for the first time. Colombia wants to reduce the gaping arbitrage between its local and global TES curves.