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Amount: Eu756m Legal maturity: December 2047

Rating: Aaa/AA+/AA+ Amount: $150m (fungible with $1bn issue launched 30/10/02)

Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA Amount: $2bn

Rating: Aaa/AAA Amount: $3bn

Mandated arrangers Barclays (sole bookrunner), JP Morgan and Nordea signed banks into the Eu400m five year revolver for Fingrid Oyi this Monday. Commerzbank, Danske Bank and Sampo Bank joined as arrangers. ING, Handelsbanken and Garras Bank joined as co-arrangers.

The bond market this week was supposed to be winding down ahead of the Christmas break, but issuers and investors remain active in dollars, euros and sterling, absorbing an unusual number of benchmark transactions for the time of year. The success of France Télécom's euro and sterling bonds shows that investors have well and truly bought into the company's restructuring plans, allowing the euro tranche to be increased from Eu1.5bn to Eu2.5bn. The pricing of the 2009 bond at 290bp over mid-swaps - at the tight end of the 290bp-300bp price talk - attracted a book in excess of Eu5bn with, said the lead managers, very little switch interest.

Banks that submitted bids for Electricité de France's new Eu6bn dual tranche facility (EdF), expect a reply from the borrower before Christmas. Pricing will be tight with a margin of around 15bp offered on the five year tranche.

Rating: Baa3/BBB-/BBB- Tranche 1: Eu2.5bn

France Télécom, Europe’s most indebted company, returned to the Euromarkets in style this week, effortlessly raising nearly Eu3bn in euros and sterling after a market absence of over a year.

France Télécom, Europe’s most indebted company, returned to the Euromarkets in style this week, effortlessly raising nearly Eu3bn in euros and sterling after a market absence of over a year.

Amount: Eu1.02bn Rating: Moody's/Fitch