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  • Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Commerzbank, JP Morgan (joint bookrunner) and Royal Bank of Scotland (joint bookrunner) are closing senior syndication on the dual tranche facility for Scottish Power. The deal has been well received in both the US and European markets with the US tranche closing oversubscribed. The loan is split between a £1bn five year revolver that will be syndicated in the UK and a $500m 364 day revolver with a one year term out option for Scottish Power owned PacifiCorp.
  • WorldCom broke new issuance records this week by launching an $11.9bn three currency financing that included the biggest ever dollar raising of $10.1bn. Despite choppy market conditions the deal, led by JP Morgan and Salomon Smith Barney, attracted 600 investors with $30bn of demand. It was increased from $7bn to $8bn, was priced at the tight end of revised price talk and traded several basis points tighter on all tranches at the break.
  • Vedior, the Dutch recruitment company, is in the bookbuilding stage of a Eu400m-Eu450m global equity offering of bearer depository receipts. Sole co-ordinator and bookrunner Merrill Lynch opened the books on May 7, and expects to complete the sale on May 16. Merrill Lynch has an over-allotment option, allowing it to increase the deal by up to 15%.
  • WorldCom broke new issuance records this week by launching an $11.9bn three currency financing that included the biggest ever dollar raising of $10.1bn. Despite choppy market conditions the deal, led by JP Morgan and Salomon Smith Barney, attracted 600 investors with $30bn of demand. It was increased from $7bn to $8bn, was priced at the tight end of revised price talk and traded several basis points tighter on all tranches at the break.
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  • China Shanghai General Motors Corp's $600m equivalent, five year fundraising arranged by Citibank NA (Hong Kong) has been closed oversubscribed. The arranger is finalising the amount before signing the facility.
  • Kemal Dervis, Turkey's minister of economy, has finalised a deal for the privatisation of Turk Telecom, achieving enough concessions to ensure the IMF will start issuing funds at its next board meeting on May 15. After a 4-1/2 hour meeting with the three party leaders from the ruling coalition, it was agreed to limit any purchase by a foreign strategic investor to 45%, in line with demands from the Turkish military.
  • Abbey National, the UK's second largest mortgage bank, will next week launch a £2.17bn securitisation, its third from the master trust vehicle it created in June last year. Lead managed by Credit Suisse First Boston and Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, the deal is the first of two Abbey plans to launch over the next two months.
  • Banca Monte Dei Paschi di Siena (MPS), one of Italy's 10 largest banks and which claims to be one of the oldest banks in the world (founded in 1472), last Friday launched a Eu348m securitisation backed by personal investment loans to its most credit worthy clients. Lead managed by BNP Paribas and MPS itself, the deal is the first public securitisation of this asset class in Italy. Only a few similar deals have been completed in Europe.
  • Three small Italian co-operative banks, located in the Tuscany and Piedmont regions, are preparing to launch a groundbreaking Eu95.2m securitisation in the next two weeks. Lead managed by Banca IMI, the deal will combine the mortgage portfolios of the three banks to create a pool large and diverse enough to securitise - something they could not achieve alone.
  • Swiss Re Capital Markets this week closed a $120m catastrophe bond that transfers the risk of windstorms in France and a hurricane in Florida or Puerto Rico into the capital markets. The deal is the first to securitise hurricane risk in Puerto Rico and it is also the first to provide using a catastrophe bond - what is known in the insurance world as a reinstatement.