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The article offers information on several Euro bond deals issued by various public sector borrowers as of June 2007. The joint bookrunners of the bond issued by the Kingdom of Belgium are Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank. The amount of the bond deal of the City State of Berlin in Germany is €1.25 billion. The maturity of the bond transaction of the Republic of Italy is on September 15, 2023.

Focuses on the developments in the residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) market in Great Britain as of January 2005. State of the securitization market in Europe in 2004; Performance of the RMBS market in Italy; Decision of several German banks to offload bad loans.

The article presents information on the bond issue of Barclays Bank. The bond, which has a rating of Aa3/AA−/AA−, is valued at 1.5 billion euros. It is due to mature on March 18, 2015 and is lead managed by Barclays Bank. According to its bookrunner, the books of the deal went under 3 billion euros and they received 250 orders. They received solid support for the 1.5 billion euro value of the deal. It was distributed to Germany, France, Italy , Great Britain, Spain and Benelux.

The article reports on the euro deal of the Abbey National Treasury Services in August 2008. It states that the trade came at a guidance price of three month Euribor and 75 basis point (bp) area. In terms of distribution, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy were all prominent and banks represented around 60% of allocated orders, with asset managers and insurers the remainder.

The article focuses on the €500 million bond issuance of Italian bank Banca Popolare di Vicenza launched on October 15, 2007. HSBC and UBS are the bookrunners of the deal rated A−/A− by S&P and Fitch. The bookrunners priced the deal at 65 bp over mid-swaps on October 15. Asset managers and pension fund accounts in Germany and the Netherlands supported the transaction.