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Korea Development Bank (KDB) geared up to return to the Samurai bond market this week, signing up Daiwa SMBC as bookrunner for a ¥30bn five year issue to be launched next week. The deal will be KDB's first in the Samurai market since November 1999. "We are looking to launch a Samurai issue because many of our clients are still interested in yen funding, given the low interest rate environment [in Japan]," said an official at KDB. "We also have some Samurai issues coming to maturity in the second half of the year, so the deal will also be used to help refinance these as well."

Boeing Capital Corporation signed a $1.5 billion Euro-MTN programme on June 6 and Deutsche Bank was the arranger. It is the fourth programme to be signed this year by a US borrower, but only the second signing from a company in the aerospace industry in the last 18 months. There have only been 14 trades from aerospace issuers in that period, most of which have come from Schipol Nederland and Schipol Group in the last month. The issuer's long-term ratings are split: A3 from Moody's and A+ from Standard & Poor's. The dealers are the arranger, ABN Amro, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, Credit Lyonnais, CSFB, Merrill Lynch, Mizuho, JPMorgan, Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, The Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS Warburg.

Rating: A+ (Fitch) Amount: Huf5bn

Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA Amount: Nkr500m

Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA Amount: Ck1.65bn

Amount: £400m Legal maturity: May 15, 2009

Mandated arranger Standard Chartered has closed syndication and will sign banks into the $350m credit for Sociedade Nacional de Combustiveis de Angola (Sonangol) in the next two weeks. Citigroup/SSB, BayernLB, HVB Group and Standard Bank have joined the deal in senior syndication.

Guarantor: Financial Security Assurance Amount: £66.5m

Italian utility ASM Brescia launched its Eu400m IPO on Wednesday, with IntesaBci, Mediobanca and UBS Warburg lead managing the offering. The price range for the IPO has been set at Eu2.1-Eu2.5 to raise Eu378m-Eu450m, plus a greenshoe.

After months of deliberation the Australian government has finally awarded the sale of Sydney's Kingsford-Smith Airport to the Southern Cross Airports Corp consortium which is made up of Macquarie Bank, Hochtief AirPort GmbH and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Joint lead arrangers and underwriters Barclays Capital, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Royal Bank of Scotland and SG Australia backed the consortium and will provide a A$1.5bn 364 day bridging facility while the details of the debt financing are being ironed out.

Amount: Eu246.3m Rating: Aa2/AA (Fitch)