The bond will provide Parisbased Scor SCOR

India has handed Pakistan data from satellite phones used by the attackers and what it describes as the confession of a surviving gunman, part of a dossier of evidence. Pakistan has said the dossier did not amount to evidence and that the "information" needed to be carefully examined India and Pakistan have fought three wars since 1947.. (Corrects headline to say sources not source) By Catherine Evans LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - French reinsurer Scor ismarketing a new catastrophe bond, likely to be the first sinceLehman Brothers' collapse in September effectively closed theprimary market, sources citing the offering documents said. The bond will provide Paris-based Scor (SCOR.PA), theworld's fifth-biggest reinsurer, with additional reinsurancecoverage for U.S windstorms and earthquakes. The $200 million three-year transaction will be issued inthree tranches two of $50 million and one of $100 million via special purpose vehicle Atlas V, the sources said on Friday.

BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank are managing the deal, whichis expected to be placed privately this month with institutionalinvestors The banks and Scor declined to comment. Catastrophe bonds, which transfer insurance companies'financial losses from natural disasters to investment funds, arelargely uncorrelated with wider financial markets and were amongthe best-performing investments of a tumultous 2008. Some $2.7 billion of the bonds were issued last year, butissuance halted after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy The U.S. investment bank's collapse prompted credit ratingagencies to downgrade four catastrophe bonds for which it wasguarantor and highlighted concerns about management anddisclosure of the collateral backing such bonds. Collateral arrangements for Atlas V are likely to be closelyscrutinised to see if these fears have been allayed. Forced selling by some hedge funds hit catastrophe bondprices late last year but the secondary market has sincestabilised, thanks partly to a string of redemptions. Catastrophe bond supply is expected to pick up as costly2008 disasters such as Hurricane Ike and heavy losses oninvestments combine to constrain capacity in the traditionalreinsurance market.

The cost of insuring against natural catastrophes rose atthe important January 1 reinsurance renewals, when many majorinsurers renegotiate the cost and terms of the annual risk coverthey buy from reinsurers, reversing two years of price falls. Prices for retrocession the passing on of reinsurancerisks to other reinsurers were sharply higher, raising expectations that firms will seek additional capacity from thecapital markets. At least two other catastrophe bonds arethought to be in the pipeline for launch in the next few months. (Additional reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta in Paris, editing byDan Lalor).

STOCKHOLM, Sweden(Business Wire)The executive management of Bong Ljungdahl AB (publ) (STO:BONG) has purchased540,000 shares, equal to 4.1 per cent of the companys total share capital. Theexecutive management consists of five individuals, of whom Bongs ManagingDirector and CEO Anders Davidsson has purchased 150,000 shares. Following the transaction Bongs executive management holds 617,700 shares,equal to 4.7 per cent of the total share capital. In addition, the executivemanagement has previously acquired warrants corresponding to 142,800 shares.After the transaction Anders Davidsson has a total holding of 182,600 shares and34,000 warrants. Two strong growth areas in the Group are the new ProPac packaging conceptand Russia, where Bong has recently established its own manufacturing facilityand sales organisation.