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Vivendi?s former Hungarian telecoms arm, Invitel, has approached the market for a Eu165m seven year deal. Sole mandated lead arranger is BNP Paribas.

The Republic of Hungary priced a debut sterling Eurobond this week, just five days before EU membership finally becomes a reality for it and nine other countries.

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The Republic of Hungary priced a debut sterling Eurobond this week, just five days before EU membership finally becomes a reality for it and nine other countries.

IBoxx and Trac-X, the two rival providers of credit default swap indices, are to merge, ending the acrimonious battle of words they have waged for the last six months and opening the way to a more liquid and dynamic credit derivatives market.

The $100m five year fundraising for Power Finance Corp has been given regulatory approval and the mandated arrangers are now waiting for approval from the Ministry of Power. Barclays Capital, Crédit Lyonnais and State Bank of India were awarded the mandate in March.

3i has won exclusivity on the leveraged buy-out of French transport services company Keolis, and EuroWeek hears Calyon, HSBC and ING will be chosen to provide the debt backing the purchase.

Who wants to go to the Olympic Games in Athens? As huge admirers of wonderfully enthusiastic Greek ladies for many years, we would love to cadge an invitation, but as we are no higher than ?D? list guests, we will probably be watching the games at home on television. The best Olympic invitations will be to stay on a yacht preferably more than 250 foot long, but we ?D?-listers would be quite happy to sleep in a Boston whaler. The advantage of being on a yacht is that you can hoof off out to sea if there is a terrorist incident ? the security aspect alone may deter some visitors to the Athens Olympics.

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