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Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA Amount: $750m

Mandated arrangers Bank Austria Creditanstalt, BayernLB and Sumitomo will launch syndication of the Eu150m five year facility for Privredna Banka Zagreb (PBZ) in the next two weeks.

Credit Suisse First Boston has been appointed dealer manager for an exchange offer of Asda Group sterling bonds into a new Wal-Mart 10 year sterling transaction. The Asda bonds involved are £200m of the 8.375% due 2007, £75.84m of the 10.875% due 2010 and £150m of the 6.625% due 2015.

Guarantor: DaimlerChrysler AG Rating: A3/BBB+

Mandated arrangers Citigroup/ SSSB, and Nordea have signed banks into the Eu400m five year facility for Novo Nordisk. The deal was oversubscribed and increased to Eu500m at signing. For more details see EuroWeek 780.

Rating: Aa3/A/A+ Amount: Eu750m

Rating: Aaa/AAA Amount: Eu1.75bn global Öffentlicher Pfandbrief series 944

Amount: Eu150m Hypothekenpfandbrief series 409 Maturity: January 18, 2005

Amount: Eu200bn Öffentlicher Pfandbrief series 58 (fungible with two issues totalling Eu1.125bn launched 06/01/99 and 05/11/02) Maturity: July 4, 2007

Amount: Eu250m Öffentlicher Pfandbrief series 1069 (increased from Eu200m 02/01/03) Maturity: January 10, 2005

The European loan market has burst into life this year, with a Eu6bn multi-currency revolver for Electricité de France (EdF) heading for syndication today (Friday). Joint mandated lead arrangers BNP Paribas, Citigroup/SSSB, Crédit Agricole Indosuez, Deutsche Bank, HSBC CCF and JP Morgan hope to launch syndication for Aa3/AA/AAA rated EdF, Europe's largest power utility.

The first mandate of the year for a project finance deal in the Middle East was awarded this week. The arranging of the $1.35bn financing for the first stage of the Egyptian LNG project has gone to 15 banks, including international and local institutions. The lucky winners are ANZ Investment Bank, Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (Apicorp), BayernLB, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Crédit Lyonnais, HSBC, IntesaBci, Royal Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sanpaolo IMI, SG and WestLB. Three Egyptian banks also joined as mandated lead arrangers - Commercial International Bank, Misr International Bank and National Société Générale Bank.