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Rating: Aaa/AAA Amount: Sfr200m (fungible with Sfr350m issue launched 12/11/02)

Rating: Aaa/AAA Amount: $4bn

Amount: Eu733m Rating: Moody's/Standard & Poor's Legal maturity: November 20, 2012 Issue price: 100.00 Call option: 10% clean up Class A notes: Eu689m Rating: Aaa/AAA Average life: 3.99 years Coupon: three month Euribor plus 45bp Class B notes: Eu44m Rating: A1/A Average life: 5.23 years Coupon: three month Euribor plus 75bp Launched: Tuesday December 3 Joint books: ABN Amro, Deutsche Bank Secured on: Spanish and Italian auto loans originated by FCE Bank

Bookrunners of the Eu15bn revolver for E.On hope to wrap up syndication next week. Banks continue to grumble about the deal's aggressive pricing, but the arrangers remain confident that it will be closed oversubscribed. "I am not surprised some banks are complaining," said a banker from one of the arrangers. "The company is putting a lot of pressure on its banks and this is bound to annoy some of them."

Rating: Aa1/AA/AAA Amount: Eu50m Hypotheken Pfandbrief

Highland Gold Mining, a Russian gold mine operator with backing from the Fleming banking family, is preparing an IPO on London's Aim market which will value it at £200m. The deal will comprise a £20.6m capital increase plus a £3.1m greenshoe of secondary shares. WH Ireland is Highland Gold's broker and adviser.

Arrangers Bank of China, BNP Paribas, HSBC, ICBC Asia, Standard Chartered and SG are waiting for Rabobank to finalise head office credit approvals before closing the $200m five year term loan for Cofco (Hong Kong). The borrower decided to increase the facility from $180m following a strong response from the market.

Tottenham Hotspur last week launched a novel debt programme blending the worlds of bank lending with whole business securitisation. Tottenham Hotspur Finance Co, arranged by Lazard, will issue four series of senior unrated bonds, allowing the club to start a youth football academy and expand the club's White Hart Lane stadium.

The Republic of Italy this week relaunched itself in the asset backed market with a Eu6.6bn equivalent securitisation of real estate assets. Lead managed by ABN Amro, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Citigroup/SSSB and JP Morgan, Società Cartolarizzazione Imm-obili Pubblici Srl (SCIP), which securitises residential and commercial real estate disposal proceeds, is a groundbreaking deal for the republic.

The nascent Portuguese mortgage backed market this week welcomed another issuer as Banco Espírito Santo closed a Eu1bn securitisation of subsidised mortgages via Credit Suisse First Boston and Deutsche Bank. Banco Espírito Santo (BES) has been a regular issuer in the Portuguese asset backed market since September 1999 when it closed a lease backed deal via Deutsche Bank. Since then it has launched a collateralised debt obligation and a second lease backed deal in April this year, via BNP Paribas and its own investment bank.

Somewhat overshadowed by the giant SCIP transaction, two European auto loan securitisations sneaked into the market this week. The first was Globaldrive BV Series E, a Eu733m issue for FCE Bank, the European arm of Ford Motor Credit. The deal securitised Spanish and Italian auto loans.

Mid Kent Water, the utility bought by WestLB, this week completed a £135m bond issue through RBS's water funding vehicle Artesian. WestLB's asset securitisation and principal finance group bought the utility in March 2001 through , Swan Capital Investments. The bank supplied £120m of senior debt along with a £50m capital maintenance facility, injecting £23m equity. The acquisition was always intended to be refinanced with a securitisation.