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India BA Asia is waiting on a few stragglers before closing Tata Iron & Steel Co's $50m three year loan.

J Sainsbury has increased the limit off its Euro-MTN programme from £

K2 Corporation is set to issue a one-year A$20 million ($10.50 million) MTN on June 20. The vanilla floater pays interest quarterly. Morgan Stanley acts as the bookrunner. The note is the issuer's first is Australian dollar.

KeyCorp has increased the limit off its $7 billion Euro-MTN programme to $10 billion. IBJ and Merrill Lynch have been dropped from the programme. Bank of America Securities and HSBC have been added to the dealer panel.

Kommuninvest has issued a ¥500 million ($4.14 million) note that goes out to July 2026. The trade pays a final coupon of 4.7% and will be issued on July 9 2001. It is the issuer's 22 yen trade since the beginning of June this year. Kommuninvest's last yen trade was also a ¥500 million note that went out to 2026. The note, which pays interest semi-annually, pays a final coupon of 4%.

Chile Arranger and underwriter SanPaolo-IMI has completed a $100m 18 month refinancing and increase for Endesa Chile.

Borrowers and investors came from all over the world to gather at the Global Borrowers and Investors Forum, held in London's Hilton hotel this week. Among the names in the MTN market were Islandsbanki's Bill Symington, CNCEP's Cyril Bonnet and SEK's Johanna Clason. And it seems like the freebies are getting better every year. Of course the pens didn't work and the chocolates melted in the bottom of the carrier bags, but the umbrellas were useful, given that the weather was scorching, and HSBC's alarm clocks went off a treat - right in the middle of the discussion panels. These interruptions didn't stop the delegates from being very polite to each other whilst on stage, although tempers frayed by Thursday lunchtime, as one delegate pinched someone else's seat and was told to "S*d off!" Leak warns of some dubious characters that have conned their way into the MTN market this week via the Bloomberg directory. Dot Cotton, the chain-smoking granny from UK soap opera Eastenders, has infiltrated the screens and posted her photo in the slot reserved for HSBC's Evie Christodoulidou. And Fergus Kiely from the same bank has had his Bloomberg space hijacked by Derek "Del Boy" Trotter - the dodgy marketstall trader from UK TV sitcom Only Fools and Horses. Leak has put two and two together and concluded that it must have been Del Boy that sold the alarm clocks to HSBC.

Sampo Bank has replaced Leonia Bank as the named issuer on its $1.5 billion Euro-CP programme. The dealers and arranger are unchanged.

Deutsche Telekom (DT) has announced that it is selling its remaining broadband assets to Liberty Media of the US. The company will sell full ownership of six of the regional cable television units to the US company. Liberty is thought to need up to Eu2bn to fund the purchase, which should be finalised in July, and will be turning to the loan market to fund this. However, the deal is in very different shape to its original form earlier this year when DT signed a letter of intent to sell its remaining cable assets to an investment partnership organised by Klesch & Company, a London-based equity firm, and Liberty.

Lufthansa became the first German corporate for six months to launch a true equity-linked bond last Friday, a Eu250m exchangeable into Spanish travel reservation company Amadeus, issued via UBS Warburg. "The deal is the first for several weeks that has traded up and stayed there," said a banker close to the deal. As of yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, the deal was trading at 101-101.5, after being issued at par.

The Loan Market Association (LMA) has set out a paper detailing guidelines for best practice in certain areas of transferability. The move comes in the light of what the association perceives as the deterioration of transfer clausing in facility agreements.