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  • Friends Ivory & Sime (FIS), the UK asset manager, was out to prove that biggest is best in the investment management sector when it almost doubled in size this week with the £240m acquisition of the fund management arm of Royal & SunAlliance. "This transaction is transformational for FIS in terms of scale... propelling us into the top 10 active investment managers in the UK," said Howard Carter, chief executive of FIS.
  • Focus Wickes, the UK home improvement retailer, has appointed Goldman Sachs and ING to lead an IPO before the end of September. The announcement comes a week after Homebase, a competitor to Focus, appointed banks to advise on an IPO, which could come either later this year or in early 2003.
  • Fortis launched the first undated floating rate convertible in Europe this week, further signalling that momentum is building in a potentially new sector for the market. The convertible, which was lead managed by Fortis Bank and JP Morgan, is the second offering in a week to be treated as equity by rating agencies.
  • Fortis launched the first undated floating rate convertible in Europe this week, further signalling that momentum is building in a potentially new sector for the market. The convertible, which was lead managed by Fortis Bank and JP Morgan, is the second offering in a week to be treated as equity by rating agencies.
  • Bookrunners BNP Paribas, Commerzbank and HSBC will launch the Eu4bn dual tranche facility for the European subsidiaries of Canadian transportation company Bombardier into senior syndication today (Friday). The bookrunners hope to sign between three and four banks into the deal as mandated lead arrangers before the loan is launched. These will probably include BayernLB, Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
  • Guarantor: General Electric Capital Corporation Rating: Aaa/AAA
  • The Development Bank of Kazakhstan has awarded the mandate to ING to arrange a $25m one year facility. Other banks involved in the deal are ABN Amro, Citigroup/SSSB and Deutsche Bank.
  • Increased market appetite for Kazakhstani risk is prompting an increasing number of corporate borrowers to push for longer tenors. Two new three year deals to come out of the region prove that arranging banks are confident that longer dated Kazahkstani risk will sell.
  • KBC Ifima has increased the size off its euro6 billion ($5.44 billion) Euro-MTN programme to euro10 billion. The update was signed on April 16. The borrower has raised over $4 billion from 48 trades off the programme.
  • Danske Bank is working out final allocations of the £30m three year facility for Kent Reliance Building. Banks will be signed into the deal shortly.
  • Guarantor: Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau Rating: Aaa/AAA
  • National Agricultural Co-operative Federation has awarded a mandate to ABN Amro to arrange a $100m 364 day transferable term loan facility. The BBB+ rated borrower paid 75bp all-in for its $100m 364 day credit in May last year - substantially more than the 47bp identically rated Korea Development Bank paid for a loan in September.