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Gym group LA Fitness has secured a £90m club loan via mandated lead arrangers Allied Irish Bank, Barclays Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland. Clydesdale Bank has committed to the facility as a co-arranger.

Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA Amount: Eu500m Öffentlicher Pfandbrief series 334 (fungible with three issues totalling Eu2bn first launched 20/08/01)

Rating: AAA/AAA Amount: £50m (fungible with four issues totalling £325m first launched 26/10/01)

Rating: Aa1/AAA Amount: Nkr500m

Rating: AAA (Fitch) Amount: Eu200m Landesschatzanweisung

Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA Amount: NZ$100m

Rating: A3 Amount: £200m (increased from £150m)

Leak braved the elements and survived to tell the tale of Islandbanki and Landsvirkjun's Discover Iceland bash. But while we did not learn much about the Icelandic economy we did discover how much Brennivin the EuroMTN community can drink. More than 30 dealers and originators made it to Ingvar, Bill and Stefan's Magical Mystery Tour and no one returned home disappointed - or sober. The group were whisked off in a private jet to a huge lump of ice. But not just any piece of ice - it was the setting for 007's latest movie, Die Another Day. But as the market struggled up the mighty glacier (a little shaken, but not stirred) there was few signs of Bond's daredevil spirit.

Leeds & Holbeck Building Society has become the third UK building society to come to the EuroMTN market this year, highlighting the sector's attraction for investors in the volatile environment. The borrower signed its £1bn EuroMTN programme with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) as the arranger. RBS is joined on the dealer panel by Barclays Capital, Danske Bank, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, HSBC and Merrill Lynch.

Lehman Brothers yesterday (Thursday) launched the £495m of senior secured facilities backing the secondary buy-out of Coral Eurobet by Charterhouse Development Capital from Morgan Grenfell Private Equity (MGPE) into syndication. Banks have been invited as co-arrangers committing an underwriting ticket of £45m for a projected final take of £30m for an underwriting fee of 135bp on allocated commitments.

Norwegian metals and materials producer Elkem and its new acquisition Sapa are preparing syndicated loans for launch. ABN Amro, DnB Markets and Svenska Handelsbanken were awarded the mandate to arrange the debt facility for Elkem that will back its acquisition of Sapa.

IOI Corp Bhd has awarded a mandate to ABN Amro and Citigroup/SSB to arrange a Eu230m, nine month bridge facility. Proceeds will finance the purchase of Loders Croklaan, a leading supplier of specialty oils and fats, from Unilever plc and Unilever for an undisclosed sum. The borrower is an investment holding and plantation company. This acquisition will enable it to develop its palm oil business.