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PRIMARY TRADING BANKS

 

Citi is a pre-eminent financial services company that delivers highly diversified financial services and solutions to clients throughout the world. With the most diverse array of products and the greatest distribution capacity of any financial firm in the world, Citi's 350,000 employees manage 200 million customer accounts across six continents in more than 100 countries.

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HSBC Holdings plc, the parent company of the HSBC Group, is headquartered in London. The Group serves customers worldwide from more than 9,500 offices in 85 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With assets of US$2,547 billion at 30 June 2008, HSBC is one of the world's largest banking and financial services organisations. HSBC is marketed worldwide as 'the world's local bank'.

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Nomura is a leading financial services group and the pre-eminent Asian-based investment bank with worldwide reach. Nomura provides a broad range of innovative solutions tailored to the specific requirements of individual, institutional, corporate and government clients through an international network in 30 countries. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York, Nomura employs about 18,000 staff worldwide. Nomura�s unique understanding of Asia enables the company to make a difference for clients through five business divisions: domestic retail, global markets, global investment banking, global merchant banking, and asset management.

Altrus

The Equity and Fund Derivatives team at Nomura is dedicated to providing clients with tailored investment solutions. The Altrus platform combines the efficient, structured solutions of the derivatives markets with the high level of before, during and after-sales service that usually is associated with asset management. Products are presented under the "Altrus" brand to highlight the strong standard of bespoke development and service that goes in to each offering. Altrus products are hallmarked by innovative underlyings and made-to-measure structures that can be distributed in a variety of formats such as notes, certificates, warrants and funds.

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. 

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Credit Ratings for the primary trading banks are detailed here.  Indicative Bank CDS levels are highlighted here.