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Rating: Aa2/A+ Amount: $1bn

Rating: Aa1/AA Amount: $300m

Barclays Capital is in the market with a £180m recapitalisation of the £120m leveraged financing backing the 1999 buy-out of Christie-Tyler by Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst. The deal is split into a £145m slab of senior debt and a £35m tranche of 10 year subordinated debt.

Rating: Aa2/AA- Amount: $250m

The $450m five year facility for the State of Qatar has been well received by the market and arrangers ABC, Gulf International Bank and Sumitomo are waiting for four more banks to join the deal. The facility, which pays a margin of 52.5bp over Libor, is already oversubscribed with commitments of $500m on the table.

Amount: Eu511.3m Legal maturity: April 15, 2015

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

Region Ile de France has signed a euro500 million ($445.43 million) Euro-CP programme. Moody's has assigned a P-1 rating to the programme. The borrower signed a euro1 billion Euro-MTN shelf in May 2001.

Russian media and IT outfit RosBusinessConsulting (RBC) this week opened a new chapter in the development of the Russian capital markets when it launched the first ever domestic IPO. Lead manager Aton Capital priced the 16m shares on offer at $0.83 - at the upper end of the $0.75-$0.85 indicated pricing range. The sale, which involved the flotation of 16% of RBC's equity capital, marked the first time a Russian company has issued shares directly onto the two Russian stock exchanges, the Russian Trading System (RTS) and the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (Micex).

Rating: Aaa/AAA Amount: Sfr500m

Rating: Baa1/A- (Moody's/Fitch) Tranche 1: $600m

Rating: Baa2/BBB- Amount: $1bn global bond