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BP Canada Energy has been added as an issuer to BP's $6 billion debt issuance programme.

Bradford & Bingley has increased the size off its Euro-MTN facility from $7.5 billion to $8 billion.

* Canada Mortgage & Housing Corp Rating: Aa1/AA+

Cofiri has upped the limit off its Euro-MTN programme to euro2 billion ($1.80 billion) from euro1.5 billion. Deutsche Bank has been added as a dealer.

Czech Republic The $200m five year loan for Czech Electrical Company (Cez) has been closed. Sole mandated arranger SMBC will sign banks into the deal next week.

France Télécom and Finmeccanica topped a staggering week in the equity markets when they sold Eu3.5bn of shares and exchangeable bonds into ST Microelectronics, the semiconductor manufacturer.

Maturities in euro ranged from one year to 12 years. But the biggest trade was done in the mid term by Svensk Exportkredit. The borrower closed a euro800 million ($712.80 million) four-year note. It also did a euro500,000 note that goes out four years. Caisse Nationale Des Caisses d'Epargne et de Prevoyance issued a euro100 million one-year note via UBS Warburg. The trade pays a fixed coupon. And another French issuer was also in euro: Caisse Centrale du Credit Immobilier de France - 3CIF did a euro15 million eight-year note via JPMorgan. The note pays a fixed coupon annually of 5.99% and the redemption is linked to the Nikkei225. Italian bank Bipop-Carire closed a euro10 million six-year note and Banque Generale du Luxembourg was also in that maturity bracket. It did a euro2.50 million six-year note linked to the Dow Jones EuroStoxx50 index, with the final amount based on several observation dates throughout the duration of the note. The trade was led by Fortis Bank.

Converium, the reinsurer spun out of Zurich Financial Services, fell by nearly 2% on its first week of trading as the Eu1.9bn deal suffered from poor conditions in the insurance sector. Lead managers UBS Warburg and Merrill Lynch priced the flotation on Monday evening at Sfr82 and $24.59 for the American Depository Receipts, in the middle of the ranges of Sfr72-Sfr90 and $21.75-$27.19. The book was six times covered.

French issuers were the busiest in euro trading and one issuer in particular dominated in terms of volume. Credit Commercial de France did a subordinated public deal for euro500 million ($445.41 million). The note has a tenor of 10 years and pays interest semi-annually. HSBC was the bookrunner. At the opposite end of the volume scale, Danone Finance closed a three-year euro10 million MTN and Credit Agricole Indosuez did a euro13.61 million note that matures on March 20 2003. In all, 13 notes were done for $907.47 million. Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg closed an 11-year euro10 million note that pays a quarterly coupon of 13.500%. Fellow German issuer, Bremer Landesbank Kreditanstalt Oldenburg did an 18-month euro250 million plain vanilla floater that carries a semi-annual payment frequency. JPMorgan was the bookrunner. Other trades included a 10-year euro2 million MTN from Parkland Finance and a euro600,000 trade from Svensk Exportkredit. The four-year note pays an annual coupon of 8.000%.

Just two issuers were looking for large volume as 13 euro trades were done. Irish-based, Volkswagen Financial Investments, closed the largest euro trade - a euro650 million ($580.28 million) note that was joint-led by Barclays Capital and Commerzbank. The note pays a single coupon of 4.750% and goes out to February 7 2007. It has a spread of 61 basis points over the OBL 138. And Bremer Landesbank Kreditanstalt Oldenburg did its second note for euro250 million within two days. The note is again for 18-months and pays interest semi-annually. Other issuers looked for lower volumes. Bear Stearns Companies closed a euro20 million note off its $5 billion Euro-Dragon MTN programme. The note goes out for ten years. BNP Paribas went for the same size with a note that matures on October 4 2007. Elsewhere, Rabobank Nederland did a six-year euro10 million MTN that pays an annual coupon of 6.750%. And Volkswagen Financial Services closed a six-month euro15 million note that pays a single coupon of 3.291%.

Bundes Immobilien Gesellschaft, the Austrian government-owned federal real estate entity, has signed a euro1 billion ($898.49 billion) Euro-CP facility. Deutsche Bank is the arranger. The dealers are Bank Austria Creditanstalt, Credit Suisse First Boston, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, RZB and Raiffeisen Landesbank Oberosterreich. The issuer is 100% state owned and is rated P1 by Moody's. It has a Moody's long-term rating of Aaa. It is the first Austrian issuer to sign in the Euro-CP market in 2001. Last year two signed: Erste Bank der Oesterreichischen Sparkassen with a euro1 billion Euro-CP shelf via Morgan Stanley, and Oesterreichische Kontrollbank with a euro10 billion Euro-CP shelf via Goldman Sachs.