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For the first time EuroWeek has included the top 20 bookrunners in the MTN issuance league tables this week, as well as introducing a table for SPV issuance. However, the top position in tables one and two remains unchanged as Citigroup continues to lead the pack by a sizeable margin. The US house has been active on deals for nearly $10bn in table one. Its nearest rival, Deutsche Bank, has managed deals worth just over $5.34bn.

Colombia tapped its outstanding 2013 dollar bond issue yeaterday (Thursday) for $250m as part of a wider liability management exercise aimed at reducing amortisations between 2005 and 2008. The deal, lead managed by Morgan Stanley, was priced at 105.5 to yield 9.85% and attracted a book of more than $750m.

Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA Amount: $500m

Rating: A1/A/A Amount: Eu150m

Mandated arrangers Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan will launch syndication of the Eu150m three year facility for Zagrebacka Banka this week. The arrangers will approach a number of the borrower's relationship banks to put together the arranger group. The deal will carry a margin of 65bp over Libor and offer a top ticket of Eu50m for a fee of 50bp.

CSFB and JP Morgan have finally secured a two-thirds majority for a waiver request from senior lenders to the £470m debt facilities backing the buy-out of Brake Bros. The senior lenders had to agree to structural enhancement of potential high yield bondholders in the capital structure of the deal.

Credit Suisse First Boston witnessed a dramatic shake-up at the top of its global debt capital markets group this week, including the departure of two of its biggest fixed income revenue earners - John Walsh and Jack DiMaio. In a series of domino reactions to new management layers inserted in the CSFB securities businesses, John Walsh, former head of global debt capital markets, has resigned and Jack DiMaio, head of global credit products, has moved to Credit Suisse Asset Management and is taking five bond traders with him.

Credit Suisse First Boston witnessed a dramatic shake-up at the top of its global debt capital markets group this week, including the departure of two of its biggest fixed income revenue earners - John Walsh and Jack DiMaio. In a series of domino reactions to new management layers inserted in the CSFB securities businesses, John Walsh, former head of global debt capital markets, has resigned and Jack DiMaio, head of global credit products, has moved to Credit Suisse Asset Management and is taking five bond traders with him.

After years of prevarication the Republic of Poland has finally awarded the mandate for its first ever Samurai bond. The recipients of the keenly prized mandate were Daiwa SMBC Securities and Mizuho Securities. While the choice of the former as a bookrunner was no surprise - Daiwa has been the number one bookrunner of Samurai bonds for sovereign borrowers in the last two years - Mizuho's appearance on the top line was not expected. Indeed, the bank is largely known for underwriting yen issues for Japanese rather than foreign borrowers.

Bond markets were buzzing this week as hopes of an early end to the war in Iraq prompted investors to look beyond government debt to high quality, but higher yielding borrowers. Swapped new issuance led swap spreads lower in both euros and dollars. Dollar swap spreads were compressed to around 41.75bp at five years and 40.5bp at 10 years by yesterday (Thursday) afternoon. This represents a compression of around 4bp at both tenors since the beginning of the month, and this movement is largely due to the sudden eruption of new debt, much of which was swapped out of fixed dollars.

Rating: Aaa/AA/AAA Amount: A$100m

Rating: Aaa/AAA (Moody's/Fitch) Amount: Eu400m (fungible with Eu600m issue launched 31/01/03)