Enel

In our usual roundup of eye-catching deals in the credit market, we focus on Italian utility Enel's EUR5bn bond, a natural catastrophe CDO from ABN Amro, and SocGen's green CDO

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Mark Dodd, deputy head of syndicate at RBS in London, describes June's five-tranche EUR5 billion transaction for Italian utility Enel as a "defining moment" in the evolution of the corporate bond market. "If the deal had gone badly it would have set a negative tone for the entire credit market, and the transactions that followed would not have been done at anything like the spreads they achieved," he says.

It is easy to see why. The Enel transaction, led by Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman

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