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  • Wine producer Southcorp spearheaded another busy week for Australian dollar bond issuance, launching its second transaction to a positive reception. Having gradually expanded in the wine sector to become one of the world's largest manufacturers, the BBB+ company arranged a A$125m five year domestic deal through Southcorp Finance, hoping that its recent restructuring efforts would be well received by the market.
  • Standard Chartered plans to list its shares in Hong Kong to complement its London listing and raise its profile in Asia. The bank, which earns over half its revenues in the region, plans a retail offering in Hong Kong and a placement to institutional investors with Goldman Sachs as lead manager. Bankers in Hong Kong expect the issue to take place in October.
  • France Télécom reaffirmed its popularity with yen investors by increasing the largest ever yen denominated bond issue from a corporate by a further ¥100bn this week. As a result of continued Japanese investor demand, the company was able to raise the ¥175bn two year FRN tranche of its recent Euroyen bond issue to ¥275bn, bringing the two tranche deal to a record ¥325bn.
  • Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corp (MTRC) launched two domestic bond issues this week. Barclays Capital was sole lead manager for a HK$200m four year bond, which was priced at par and pays a quarterly coupon of 5.3%.
  • Australia James Hardie Industries raised A$200m through a placement of 35m shares at A$5.75 on Tuesday. The issue, arranged by UBS Warburg, was 5.4% below the company's A$6.08 price at Tuesday's close. The sale was to fund expansion of its US fibre-cement business and also repay debt. More than 40 investors took up the shares.
  • Reckitt Benckiser has signed a $1 billion Euro-MTN programme. Westdeutsche Landesbank is the arranger. It is joined by ABN Amro, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, JPMorgan, Mizuho and Schroder Salomon Smith Barney on the dealer panel.
  • * Bayerische Landesbank Girozentrale Rating: Aaa/AAA
  • Finland JP Morgan is wrapping up the quiet first round of syndication on the Eu725m and Nkr8bn facility for Sampo, the Finnish insurer.
  • Market report Compiled by Richard Favis, RBC DS Global Markets, Johannesburg
  • * Alliance & Leicester plc Rating: A2/A/A+
  • * Eurohypo Luxembourg SA Rating: AAA
  • TCNZ has increased the limit off its $750 million Euro-CP programme to $1 billion. Telecom Corp of New Zealand has been dropped as an issuer. Barclays Capital and Citibank have been dropped as German dealers.