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Rating: Aa3/AA- Amount: $50m

Rating: Aaa/AAA Amount: Eu330m (fungible with nine issues totalling Eu1.707bn first launched 13/03/03)

Rating: Aa3/AA- (Moody's/Fitch) Amount: Eu250m

Rating: A1/A+/AA- Amount: Eu200m

Who remembers Steven Berger from his time in Europe as head of investment banking for Lehman Brothers International? To do so, you might have to possess a grey hair or two, but our ever-faithful back copies of the Euromoney directories between 1992 and 1995 show him as both head of mergers and acquisitions and investment banking.

Co-ordinating arrangers SG Asia, BNP Paribas, Bumiputra Commerce Bank, Crédit Lyonnais, Den norske Bank and ICBC have closed the $131.16m 10 year ship financing for China Ocean Shipping (Cosco). Arrangers are Industrial Commercial Bank of China, NordLB, China Construction Bank and Guangdong Development Bank.

Citigroup is head of Dealogic LoanWare's bookrunner league table of Europe, Middle East and African syndicated loans, proving the power of its international franchise. The firm has bookrun loans in France, Norway, the UK, South Africa, Russia, Greece and the Netherlands since January. In terms of bookrunning, it has a 17% market share of the EMEA loans signed this year.

BNP Paribas and HBOS are arranging senior and debt facilities to back Close Brothers' 45% $100m buy-out of ship management company V-Ships. The borrower is called V-Holdings. Some $91.8m of senior debt is split into a $58.8m seven year term loan 'A', a $20m seven year term loan 'B', a $3m seven year acquisition facility and a $10m seven year revolver.

Citigroup entered the second quarter with a commanding lead over its rivals. While Deutsche Bank picked up EuroWeek's EuroMTN house of the year this week, Citigroup can be pleased with its $8.672bn of issuance this year in the first league table and the fact that it has executed 67% more trades than any other bank. It holds a similarly impressive lead in the second table. Elsewhere, the lower volumes of issuance this week meant that there were few changes to the MTN rankings. In the second league table HSBC leapfrogged Goldman Sachs and ABN Amro nudged ahead of Merrill Lynch, but the standings in the first league table were unchanged.

Rating: A2/A Amount: Eu100m (fungible with Eu350m issue launched 29/05/02)

Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA Amount: $100m (fungible with $750m issue launched 06/01/03)

The five mandated arrangers Commerzbank, DZ Bank, LB Kiel, Mizuho and Sanpaolo IMI have invited a select group of banks to join the Eu150m three year term loan for RBA Croatia as arrangers. The deal pays a margin of 80bp over Libor. Commitments are due by the end of next week and the deal will be launched into general syndication thereafter.