If you were working at an investment bank over the first three months of the year, you would have been best off plying your trade where most of the action was – in the debt capital markets. And for those in the DCM divisions of their banks, the most interesting work could be found working for financial institution clients.

Sébastien Domanico and Antoine Loudenot, both just 36 and Financial News Rising Stars in 2010 and last year respectively, have had the good fortune to find themselves in Societe Generale's financials debt capital markets practice in a golden period for European FIG.