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* Helaba International Finance plc Guarantor: Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale

BTM Holdings has added Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi as an issuer to its $15 billion MTN programme. Credit Suisse First Boston has also been added as a dealer and joins a now eighteen-strong dealer panel.

DaimlerChrysler UK Holding has issued two euro trades off its $20 billion multi currency EMTN programme. The first trade was initially quoted at euro85 million ($79.81 million), but was later topped up to euro93 million. It was lead managed by Commerzbank, while HypoVereinsbank managed the second trade for euro25 million. Both notes are zero bonds and mature in February 2002. Boris Haensel, DaimlerChrysler's treasurer for the UK entity, says: "We'll go on to issue this year to fund our leasing activities. Our main focus will be on the one to two year period because that covers most of our leasing activities."

* Volkswagen Financial Services NV Guarantor: Volkswagen Financial Services AG

A Brazilian company is planning to bring the country's first public residential MBS deal, with the domestic market likely to see several further issues this year. Brazilian Securities was formed by two mortgage originating banks, Group Ourinvest and Group Rossi, solely to securitise under the Sistema Financeiro Imobiliario regulatory changes designed to encourage the creation of a traded MBS market.

Credit events this week, including Ford and General Motors being placed on negative outlook by S&P, and renewed pressure on telecoms spreads, failed to dent investor enthusiasm for corporate paper, allowing several issuers to increase the size of their offerings and tighten spreads through price talk. The return of the triple-Bs was particularly noteworthy since the sector had been absent from the market for several weeks. Baa1/BBB+ Birka Energi had an order book of over Eu1.6bn for a Eu500m seven year bond and US retailer Toys "R" Us, rated A3/BBB+, increased the size of its five year bond from Eu300m to Eu500m, having attracted a book of Eu1.25bn.

Atul Bajpai, head of principal finance and securitisation at Lehman Brothers in London, is to move to Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein's London office to be head of principal finance. Bajpai left Lehman this week and could not be reached for comment, but Dresdner is believed already to have hired a small principal finance team. Bajpai is expected to start work at Dresdner in March to begin building business.

A 17-strong arranger group has launched a Eu275m one year loan for Türkiye Garanti Bankasi, helping to restore confidence in the Turkish market. The banks are Alfa Bank, Banca Commerciale Italiana, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Bank of New York, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (bookrunner), Barclays, HypoVereinsbank, Commerzbank, Crédit Agricole Indosuez, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, ING Barings, Mizuho Financial Group, DKB/Fuji (bookrunner), Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Chartered and Toronto-Dominion Bank.