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Banks have been invited to attend a meeting for the £335m seven year acquisition facility for Mall Fund in London next week. Some £330m of the deal will be sold to the market at 90bp over Libor. The remaining £5m, that pays 10bp, will be held back.

Did the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride through the Euromarkets last week? The City of London refuse collectors reported that they found nothing that you might wish to spread over your rose bushes, but they did discover several previously unidentified rivers of blood. You certainly needed your green wellies down in the badlands of Canary Wharf, where footpads lurk on every corner and street-sellers offer a dazzling variety of freshly stolen mobile phones. Outside the headquarters of Credit Suisse First Boston, there was not only blood in the street, but dozens of unlucky bodies floating down the Thames. Professional corpse-spotters claimed that the bodies did not originate exclusively from CSFB, but had been joined by other sadly departed souls from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.

BayernLB, Commerzbank, HSBC and Danske Bank signed banks into the $75m loan facility for aerospace and defence group Meggitt on Monday. Joining the deal as co-arrangers for a take of $20m are Svenska Handelsbanken, Lloyds TSB and WestLB.

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Mizuho Corporate Bank (Sydney) has signed a $2.5 billion Euro-MTN programme. The facility will also allow for the issuance of CDs. Standard & Poor's has assigned its triple-B long-term ratings and A-3 short-term ratings to the programme. The ratings reflect the BBB/A-3 outlook on Japan's Mizuho Corporate Bank. The outlook on the long-term rating of Mizuho Corporate Bank is negative.

Sergio Rial is moving to Bear Stearns after 18 years at ABN Amro, where he ran the wholesale client group and sat on the management board. He is to head Bear Stearns' capital markets businesses as co-head of investment banking.

The group of seven or eight VCs bidding for NationalCarParks (NCP) will be whittled down to two by next week. Citigroup/SSSB and JP Morgan are advising US marketing group Cendant on the sale of NCP, which could raise between £800m and £850m. Cendant was hoping to sell off NCP for around £1bn.

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BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan launched the Eu2bn 1-1/2 year multi-currency revolver for first time borrower European, Aeronautic, Defence and Space Company (EADS) into syndication on Wednesday. The deal is divided into a Eu600m 364 day tranche 'A' and a Eu1.4bn five year tranche 'B'.

Croatia Erste Bank is to bid for Rijecka banka, Croatia's third biggest bank by assets, which uncovered losses of $100m at the hands of a rogue trader last month, prompting the bank's sale to the government by previous owner Bayerische Landesbank.

NTL's loudly trumpeted $10.6bn bonds-for-equity swap might appear to be a done deal, but it is only an agreement in principle, and the senior bank lenders will be picking through it. There are three bank syndicates, one in Switzerland and two in the UK, and in all about 60 banks represented by a steering committee of eight. The banks vote on any deal according to the weight of their holdings.

Denmark LM Glasfiber, the manufacturer of wind turbine blades, has set the price range for its IPO at Dkr70-Dkr82. If the greenshoe is exercised, the company will sell 28.8m shares and have a freefloat of 51%. The IPO will value the company at Dkr3.8bn-Dkr4.5bn, giving a base deal size of Dkr1.7bn-Dkr2bn. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein is leading the deal.