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DG Bank has changed the issuer name off its euro5 billion ($4.42 billion) multi-currency CP programme to DZ Bank.

Croatia The three year Eu50m deal for the Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (HBOR) has been closed oversubscribed by 50%.

Singapore * Singapore Telecommunications Ltd

AT&T finally priced its $10.09bn equivalent dollar and euro denominated offering yesterday (Thursday). The deal was increased from an originally planned $5bn. It comprised a $1.5bn five year line, a $2.75bn 10 year and a $2.75bn 30 year in the dollar market, and a Eu2bn five year straight and a Eu1.5bn three year floater in euros.

AT&T offered large new issue premiums to get a $10.09bn multi-currency global bond issue away yesterday (Thursday), the US telco's biggest ever deal and second only this year to WorldCom's $11.9bn offering in May. The transaction, led by Credit Suisse First Boston, Goldman Sachs and Salomon Smith Barney, was split into three dollar and two euro tranches and increased from an original $5bn after attracting a book of $30bn, $25bn of which was for the dollar pieces.

Australia Arranger JP Morgan has launched into general syndication a A$156.9m debt facility to finance the purchase of Smorgon Steel Group's steel division, Bradken, by Champ (Castle Harlan Australia Mezzanine Partners). The arranger has underwritten Champ's debt requirements for the transaction.

Would you believe that ABN Amro in London has joined the glitterati jet set and that if you venture to 250 Bishopsgate you may have to fight your way through lines of paparazzi and a throng of nubile groupies waving autograph books? What has happened to change ABN Amro's image? Normally the most exciting event on ABN Amro's social calendar is a demonstration of clog dancing by selected employees from Amsterdam HQ, followed by a Bols gin and Red Bull drinking competition. Perhaps chairman Rijkman Groenink has hired Claudia Schiffer as head of sales? Has Prince William signed up for the graduate training programme in 2004? No, the popping cameras and crowds of autograph hunters are all the result of the sensational news that an ABN Amro employee, a Mr Tim Attias, is escorting the vivacious and still frisky Jerry Hall, who was once married to Mick Jagger and is considerably richer thanks to that association. This is the best publicity that ABN Amro has had for ages and we hope that chairman Groenink has given the orders to milk the story with all the resources the bank can muster. How about a photo shoot on the steps of 250 Bishopsgate? Could Ms Hall be persuaded to be seen instructing her broker to buy 10,000 shares of ABN Amro - heaven only knows the stock needs all the help it can get.

Australia Arranger JP Morgan has launched into general syndication a A$156.9m debt facility to finance the purchase of Smorgon Steel Group's steel division, Bradken, by Champ (Castle Harlan Australia Mezzanine Partners). The arranger has underwritten Champ's debt requirements for the transaction.

Banco Popolare di Bergamo - Credito Varesino has increased the ceiling off its euro4 billion ($3.53 billion) debt issuance programme to euro4.5 billion. FinanzAttiva has been added as a dealer.

The Czech Export Bank (CEB) has sent out requests for proposal for a refinancing of a $250m bond redemption in May 2002, plus around $100m of new money. The issuer is not in a hurry to launch the bond, which is expected early in the first quarternext year. Bankers say CEB would prefer to borrow in dollars, but will look at euros with a swap. It is not clear whether the deal will have a 144A listing as did the original issue.