MTN Leak

Leak likes to see dedication from its readership — so this week’s award for sterling effort has to go to Annemarie Ganatra at HSBC.

The war of words between Commerzbank’s Malek Benfetima and Felix Weiss escalated on Thursday, when Benfetima blamed his colleague for leaking the details of his recent holiday to EuroWeek.

Never let it be said Goldman Sachs’ Marko Milos is a man without a plan.

While digging around for yet more juicy gossip involving the MTN crew at the EuroWeek Bond Awards Dinner last week (there’s still time to send it in), Leak managed to unearth a preview of what to expect in 2014.

The EuroWeek Bond Award dinner has three main purposes as far as Leak is concerned: celebrating excellence in the market, catching up with industry players and, of course, drinking lots of alcohol.

Anyone in the City in need of sunglasses last week? The Mizuho MTN desk had to wear them at work.

We knew we were in trouble when we met Vincenzo "film buff" Botta of UBS and he told us about his latest weekend wheeze.

Leak is very excited about meeting up with the über-trendy desk UBS next week. But the trouble with keeping ahead of the trend is that the coolest locations can be incredibly difficult to find.

We were left scratching our heads this week as we lunched with Julie Pertuiset and Paul Jones at Lloyds. Both of svelte form, we were left wondering how it was they didn’t need a reinforced floor as they listed off their daily calorie intake.

It’s good to know that in these times of healthy lifestyles, body mass indices and "recommended daily allowances" that some bankers in the City like to keep the good old days of boozy lunches alive.

MTN marketeers breathed a collective sigh of relief this week as a leader in the battle against expensive and inflexible funding returned to keep up the good fight.

Many of the MTNs world’s most popular figures were on holiday this week, leaving undermanned desks tackling the gargantuan tasks that the modern industry throws up.