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Guarantor: Federal Republic of Germany Rating: Aaa/AAA

Rating: Aa2/AA-/AAA Amount: Sk1bn

Rating: AAA/AAA Amount: Sfr200m (fungible with Sfr300m issue launched 10/09/02)

The wild man at ABN Amro has left his crazy days behind him. While ABN's syndicate team drunk into the early hours in the company of EuroWeek's bond journalists on Tuesday, ABN Amro's head of MTNs, Anthony Everill, left the Great Eastern Dining Room, in London's trendy Shoreditch, early to spend some time with his three week old son. Apparently Anthony had been out partying too much and was gently reminded not to be late by Mrs Everill. The arrival of Anthony's bouncing baby boy takes his tally to two and rather than grooming the boys for a life in MTNs, Anthony told Leak that he wants them to pursue the life he always wanted - to be ski instructors in winter and windsurfers in summer. What is wrong with the 12 hour days of a banker Anthony?

Amount: Eu619m Rating: Moody's/Fitch

Brazilian bonds plunged to their lowest levels in almost seven years and the Real weakened to R3.98/$ to the dollar yesterday (Thursday) as markets reacted negatively to leftist candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva winning the first round of presidential elections last Sunday. The sovereign's C bond was trading around 49.5 yesterday afternoon, up from a low of 48.5 in the morning but drastically weaker from recent highs of 57.00.

Deutsche Bank has added a new member to its London debt syndicate desk. David Bourne started on Monday, working with Derek Mills on FRNs and financial institution products, and reporting to global head of syndicate, Hope Pascucci. He joins from Deutsche's Tokyo office, where he ran the MTN desk.

DSB, Denmark's largest provider of public transport services, has launched a Eu500m EuroMTN facility. Citigroup/SSSB has won the arrangership. Issuance off the facility is restricted to bonds with a maturity of less than 15 years. Søren Skodal, head of finance at DSB in Copenhagen, told EuroWeek: "We intend to use the proceeds for part of our general financing requirements, especially for the funding of the current investments in new S-trains and IC4 train sets."

Syndication of the Eu650m multi-tranche facility for Athlon Groep is set to close next week. The deal for the car leasing company has received a warm response from the market and will close oversubscribed.

Croatia Croatian food group Podravka intends to float a 25% stake in Belupo, its wholly owned pharmaceutical unit.

Bulgaria Standard & Poor's (S&P) has raised its rating on the Republic of Bulgaria from BB to BB+, leaving the republic one notch below investment grade, and has placed the rating on positive outlook. The upgrade comes on the back of Bulgaria's second Brady bond exchange in September, in which the sovereign completed a $759m swap into its 2015 8.25% dollar global bond.

Rating: Aa2 Tranche 1: ¥15bn