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Rating: Aa1/AAA (Moody's/Fitch) Amount: Nkr500m

Rating: Aaa/AAA Amount: $48m

Mandated arrangers DnB Markets and LB Kiel have signed banks into the Eu75m five year facility for savings bank Sandnes Sparebank. The deal was well supported and increased to Eu95m at signing. DZ Bank and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg joined as co-arrangers. Hamburgische Landesbank and Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz joined as senior lead managers. Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Bremer Landesbank Kreditanstalt Oldenburg, NordLB, Union Bank of Norway and WGZ-Bank joined as lead managers. The borrower last tapped the market in July 1998 with a Eu109.5m five year term loan. Mandated arranger was DnB Markets. The deal paid a margin of 22bp over Libor.

Rating: Aa3/A+/AA- Amount: Eu400m

Guarantor: Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA

Rating: A1/A Amount: Eu5bn government bond

Concerns about a looming war, rising interest rates and light bond supply for the year sent investors stampeding into the high grade dollar corporate market this week, and borrowers happily obliged with more than $20bn of new deals. Issuers as wide-ranging as triple-B Cendant Corp to heavyweights like Household Finance and DaimlerChrysler took advantage of investors' clean slates and huge cash levels at the beginning of the year.

Florens Container Corp has awarded a mandate to ABN Amro, Bank of Communications and SG Asia to arrange a $150m five year term loan. Two banks will join the arranger group before the deal is launched today (Friday).

Rating: A2/A- Amount: $1.75bn

Rating: A2/A-/A Amount: Eu750m

Welcome back from the Christmas and new year holidays. While most of our pals were frolicking on the ski slopes or sunning their interesting bits in the Caribbean, we in the south of England were awash from non-stop rainstorms and regretting the fact that someone hadn't given us a DIY Noah's Ark Christmas present. You know that the situation is dire when your three Labradors, who all take like ducks to water normally, are not even pestering you to go for a walk.

After a bumper year in 2002, Hungarian banks have already begun to return to the syndicated loan market. This week two new mandates have been awarded for facilities. The first is the long awaited mandate to arrange the Eu150m five year deal for the Central European Investment Bank (CIB). The borrower originally issued a request for proposals (RFPs) in September and there followed a long drawn-out process to select Bank Austria, DZ Bank, ING and LB Kiel as the mandated arrangers.