Thomson Reuters on Friday released the top government-guaranteed bond underwriters for the third quarter of 2009 as of Thursday, September 24.

The table reflects all U.S. dollar denominated bond issuance. GOVERNMENT-GUARANTEED BONDS BOOKRUNNER VOLUME MARKET #OF 7/1/2009 - 9/24/2009 (US$ MLN) RANK SHARE ISSUES Citi 9,418.4 1 26.6 9 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 5,720.5 2 16.2 8 Goldman Sachs & Co 4,905.1 3 13.9 9 JP Morgan 3,655.9 4 10.3 7 Morgan Stanley 3,170.3 5 9.0 7 BNP Paribas SA 1,895.2 6 5.4 2 Barclays Capital 1,500.9 7 4.2 4 Deutsche Bank AG 1,332.6 8 3.8 2 UBS 1,229.3 9 3.5 2 RBS 895.2 10 2.5 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOKRUNNER VOLUME MARKET #OF 1/1/2009 - 9/24/2009 (US$ MLN) RANK SHARE ISSUES Citi 60,820.8 1 22.8 48 JP Morgan 44,102.3 2 16.5 39 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 40,810.9 3 15.3 30 Morgan Stanley 32,257.1 4 12.1 36 Goldman Sachs & Co 26,716.6 5 10.0 37 Barclays Capital 11,571.1 6 4.3 19 HSBC Holdings PLC 10,814.7 7 4.1 11 BNP Paribas SA 10,001.7 8 3.7 8 Deutsche Bank AG 8,173.5 9 3.1 16 Credit Suisse 3,675.1 10 1.4 8 Source: Thomson Reuters Bond criteria for the tables are established and published in cooperation with bond underwriters. Sovereign and emerging market high-yield bonds are excluded from the tables. All underlying data are made available to bond underwriters to ensure market transparency.

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