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Rating: A3/A-/BBB+ Amount: $750m global bond

Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA Amount: $100m

Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA

Mobile operator Kyivstar on Tuesday became Ukraine's first corporate to issue a Eurobond when it successfully launched a $100m three year trade. The deal came just a fortnight after the telco had to postpone the bond due to corruption scandals surrounding the country's president.

Rating: B2/B- Amount: $100m

Landes-Hypothekenbank Steiermark (Hypo Steiermark) has put its name to a Eu2bn debt issuance programme. Deutsche Bank has won the arrangership and is joined on the dealer panel by Credit Suisse First Boston, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Nomura. Hypo Steiermark is the second Austrian issuer to come to the EuroMTN market this year and only the seventh Austrian borrower since the beginning of 2000.

Rating: Aa2/AA/AAA Amount: Ck300m

Rating: Aa1/AA+/AAA Amount: Eu2bn Landesschatzanweisungseries 415

Guarantor: Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz Girozentrale Rating: Aa1/AA+/AAA

Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA Amount: C$50m (fungible with C$100m issue launched 17/09/02)

The Christmas invitations continue to roll in. Britannia Building Society is hosting its bash at the City Golf Bar in London's Blackfriars and Kommunalbanken has sent out the invites for its annual shindig at the Norwegian ambassador's residence in London's Bayswater. But to the disappointment of the many MTN dealers who seem to have a penchant for dressing up, Britannia has decided against a fancy dress theme for its Xmas fest. Last year HSBC's Annemarie Ganatra and Evie Christodoulidou turned up in nuns' outfits. And as if that were not strange enough, HSBC's MTN head, Fergus 'King of the Hong Kong markets' Kiely, decided to do the same thing. Ooh Vicar.

Rating: Aa2/A+ Amount: $150m tier one capital (fungible with $850m issue launched 08/10/02)