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  • Net international reserves hit $48 billion
  • The deal for J. Crew Group was pulled from the market Wednesday following the company's decision to delay its initial public offering until next year.
  • Germany's top tier borrowers are having a great time of it. With banks desperate to lend, companies can secure razor-tight terms on their syndicated loans — even if they are using the money to back acquisitions.
  • Despite Germany's economic and political uncertainty, international investors' love affair with German top tier credits is as strong as ever. With its first foreign currency bond for more than 50 years, the government attracted a whopping $14bn of demand, while the country's triple-A borrowers, spotting the need to be more flexible, have reaffirmed their popularity with a series of blowout deals. Philip Moore reports.
  • Because German companies are cash-rich and have a myriad of cheap funding sources they have not been great users of the international bond markets this year. But some of them have embraced hybrid capital to great effect. Philip Moore reports.
  • Germany's new chancellor, Angela Merkel, was voted into power on the strength of promises to sort out the country's economy.
  • The Landesbanks had had four years to prepare for losing their state guarantees, so July 18 came and went without a crisis. But if events have not matched the drama of the clash that brought about an end to Landesbanks' unfair advantages, their business models and funding strategies have changed irrevocably. Neil Day reports.
  • Despite senior political figures branding private equity investors "locusts" and "predatory scum", German leveraged finance is set for a record breaking year and 2006 is predicted to be even bigger.
  • Germany's financial sector has spent the past three years getting itself back into shape. The hard, often painful, restructuring is finally paying off — Germany's leading banks have all reported improved results this year. As Philip Moore reports, the next quest is to improve profitability which could lead to a flurry of hybrid capital deals across the financial services sector.
  • The success of KfW's securitisation programmes has somewhat masked the True Sale International initiative's lack of impact. However, Chancellor Schröder's last act before giving up his seat to Angela Merkel should make issuance under the TSI a lot easier and cheaper. Meanwhile, as Philip Moore reports, opportunities in the non-performing loan and real estate sectors are capturing the imagination of bankers and investors.
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  • Celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the first jumbo Pfandbrief and the smooth transition to the new Pfandbrief Act have been overshadowed this year by the panic caused by the crisis at Allgemeine HypothekenBank Rheinboden and its effect on the jumbo Pfandbrief market. Neil Day reports.