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Euromoney’s borrower awards 2007 |
| Overall awards | |
| Best sovereign/supranational/agency borrower | Best bank borrower |
| Best insurance borrower | Best ABS |
| Best CDO borrower | Best covered bond issuer |
| Best corporate borrower | Best high-yield/leveraged finance borrower |
| Latin America regional awards | |
| Best sovereign borrower | Best corporate borrower |
| Best financial borrower | |
| Central & Eastern Europe regional awards | |
| Best sovereign borrower | Best corporate borrower |
| Best financial borrower | |
| Asia regional awards | |
| Best sovereign borrower | Best corporate borrower |
| Best financial borrower | |
| Middle East and northern Africa regional awards | |
| Best borrower | |
Good borrowers can always take advantage of favourable conditions to secure market access. But the very best borrowers can launch issues at even the worst of times. And times can hardly have been worse than in late September 2006 when the Republic of Hungary launched a €500 million tap of its November 2012 floating-rate note. While lead managers BNP Paribas and Dresdner Kleinwort were preparing to launch the latest in a series of liability management exercises for the sovereign, protesters were clashing with riot police outside the Hungarian parliament.