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Colombia increased its 20 year dollar bond by $325m this week, moving quickly to take advantage of US institutional investor interest in long dated Latin bonds from those issuers least affected by Argentina. Seeing the unquestionable success of Mexico's recent 30 year bond issue, Merrill Lynch and Salomon Smith Barney approached Colombia with the idea of re-opening the 2020s, a transaction that has recently traded at some of its lowest yield levels since it was launched in February 2000.

Colombia increased its 20 year dollar bond by $325m this week, moving quickly to take advantage of US institutional investor interest in long dated Latin bonds from those issuers least affected by Argentina. Seeing the unquestionable success of Mexico's recent 30 year bond issue, Merrill Lynch and Salomon Smith Barney approached Colombia with the idea of re-opening the 2020s, a transaction that has recently traded at some of its lowest yield levels since it was launched in February 2000.

* FCE Bank plc Rating: A2/A/A+

Deutsche Telekom (DT) was involved this week in a desperate attempt to salvage its credibility following the collapse in its share price after Deutsche Bank sold Eu1.04bn of DT stock last week. DT's share price has dived by 25% in the week and a half following the sale. The fall in DT's share price was caused by the sale of a block Deutsche Bank sold on behalf of an affiliate of Hutchison Whampoa, which took a major stake in DT in return for the sale of the US wireless unit VoiceStream earlier this year. But with much more DT stock remaining in the market following this acquisition it is likely that the share price will remain depressed.

Dollar swap spreads climbed from their lows this week. At yesterday's (Thursday's) close, the 10 year mid-market was 84.75bp over the new 5% August 2011 Treasury and the five year mid-market was 77.5bp over the 4.625% May 2006 Treasury. Spreads oscillated alongside the Treasury market for much of the week, but the swap market was given an unexpected paying impetus late yesterday by a large sale of agency securities. A hedge fund was reported to be selling up to several billions of dollars of agency positions, and the buyers of these assets hedged by paying into the swap market. There is a very high degree of correlation between agencies and swaps, and the latter is often used as hedge for the former.

Diversified European Credit has increased the debt ceiling off its Euro-MTN programme. The shelf's original debt limit was euro2 billion ($1.83 billion) and this has now been upped to euro5 billion. The programme was signed without an arranger or dealer panel in July last year and since then 17 trades have been issued under it. All are still outstanding and the volume is $598.80 million.

Deutsche Telekom (DT) was involved this week in a desperate attempt to salvage its credibility following the collapse in its share price after Deutsche Bank sold Eu1.04bn of DT stock last week. DT's share price has dived by 25% in the week and a half following the sale. The fall in DT's share price was caused by the sale of a block Deutsche Bank sold on behalf of an affiliate of Hutchison Whampoa, which took a major stake in DT in return for the sale of the US wireless unit VoiceStream earlier this year. But with much more DT stock remaining in the market following this acquisition it is likely that the share price will remain depressed.

Croatia Mandated arrangers Bank Austria, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, BayernLB and Erste Bank have signed banks into the Eu45m deal for Hrvatska Elektroprivreda (HEP).

Colombia * Republic of Colombia

* Bayerische Landesbank Girozentrale Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA

* Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten NV Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA

Dutch issuers only issued two notes in euro but they accounted for just over 40% of the volume announced in the currency on Friday. ABN Amro issued a euro15 million ($13.40 million) trade that matures in two years. It pays a final coupon of 5%. And SNS Bank Nederland did a euro100 million three-year trade that pays 6.375%. France was again the busiest issuing country with five trades, but they only came to $37.2 million. Societe Generale Acceptance did a euro10 million and a euro20 million trade. The former matures in October 2003, the latter in August 2011. Caisse Centrale du Credit Imobilier de France also issued twice. Both are for euro5 million and mature in three years. Banca di Roma (London) did its fourth and fifth trades of 2001. Both were sized at euro5 million but one goes to August 2006 and the other to August 2009.