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US insurer American International Group has settled its legal battle with Asset Backed Capital, the London-based structured investment vehicle, over the notorious Hollywood Funding securitisations. AIG shocked the asset backed market in early 2001 by refusing to pay claims on credit insurance policies it had written to support Hollywood Funding Nos 4, 5 and 6 - three film finance securitisations placed privately by Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998. The deals had been rated AAA by Standard & Poor's, which saw the insurance as tantamount to a full guarantee, but the bonds defaulted suddenly when AIG denied the claims.

Scuba diving master, speaker of three languages, art collector and wine connoisseuse, Allegra Berman, head of frequent borrower coverage at UBS Warburg, has attributes more suited to a career as an Ian Fleming secret agent than a banker. At the same time as honing these skills, though, she has reached the peak in her field of banking at the tender age of 31.

"God's gift to CSFB," is how Hans-Jörg Rudloff (see profile) described Allen Wheat in 1990, and for a decade or so this scarcely seemed hyperbole.

Allied Domecq has mandated BNP Paribas, Citigroup, HSBC, ING Bank, JP Morgan and Royal Bank of Scotland to arrange its £1bn five year revolving facility.

Rating: Aa2/AA

In March 2003, Andrew Pisker was appointed to Dresdner Bank's management board, the latest step-up for the chief executive officer of the bank's Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW) investment bank unit.

It is banking's gain that although it did occur to Anneke de Boer not to go into finance after graduating - she was thinking about moving to Manchuria to teach English - the work experience gained on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during her holidays persuaded her that China could wait.

When Anthony Barklam joined Morgan Stanley's syndicate desk from Merrill Lynch, he was asked to marry the pursuit of mandates with a mandate of his own - to build up the sterling business. Freddie Mac chose Barklam's old firm Merrill alongside Morgan Stanley to lead its £500m deal in July 2000 - the first ever global bond in the currency.

Amount: $500m and A$28m

Armin Mattle will not just be remembered as one of the supertraders of the 1960s and 1970s. He is also one of the father figures of the Association of International Bond Dealers.

"Straight as a plumb-rule," "unpretentious" and "one of the more honest and unpolitical animals in investment banking" was how colleagues described Archie Cox - all 6ft 7in of him - in the early 1990s.

Auchan, the French food retailer, has signed a new Eu1.5bn EuroMTN programme through BNP Paribas.