Pots, plots and fair shares

Hope, fear and wonder as a new market opens

Credit bash crowds out Crillon

Use your debt lest someone else does

Debates on how to wring the best efforts out of bond-syndicate members are of long standing. But the debate has intensified as the US, Euro and global bond markets struggled to cope with market meltdown and then with the dramatic growth of corporate bond issues in Europe, which required lead managers to pre-market credit stories to potential investors, often for the first time.