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  • DG Bank has had an active week working on the Eu30m-Eu36m SMAX IPO of plastics manufacturer Masterflex, while five companies have announced that DG will manage their Neuer Markt IPOs. Last week United Visions Entertainment appointed DG lead manager of its IPO. This week Media!, Focus Digital, IVU Traffic Technologies and Condat have also announced that the bank will list them on the Neuer Markt.
  • * Tim Skeet is joining Barclays Capital as a director to focus on strengthening the firm's coverage of continental European financial institutions. He will report to the recently hired Arnault de Torquat, Barclays' new global head of financial institutions coverage. Skeet was previously head of the financial institutions group at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.
  • Argentina * Argentina has swapped $2.4bn in new 15 year bonds for $3.3bn in old Brady debt over the internet.
  • France * Credit Suisse First Boston completed the Eu140m secondary offer of Wavecom shares. The Nouveau Marché-listed company sold 1.44m shares at Eu98.5. The company listed a year ago at Eu13.5. The deal increased the freefloat from 34% to 43%.
  • Market report: Compiled by Glenn Blackley, RBC DS Global Markets, Australia. Tel: +61 2 9373 0431
  • Unilever, the acquisitive Anglo-Dutch company, has increased the loan to back its recently agreed $24.3bn all-cash bid for Bestfoods of the US from the expected $20bn to $22bn. The deal is closing in on the market, and offers bankers a much-needed opportunity to focus on a sector other than telecoms and technology.
  • Unilever, the acquisitive Anglo-Dutch company, has increased the loan to back its recently agreed $24.3bn all-cash bid for Bestfoods of the US from the expected $20bn to $22bn. The deal is closing in on the market, and offers bankers a much-needed opportunity to focus on a sector other than telecoms and technology.
  • Pfandbrief Bank International (PBI) will soon sign the first debt issuance programme under which lettres de gage, the Luxembourg equivalent of German Pfandbriefe, can be issued. The programme will be a Eu7.5bn multi-currency facility and, alongside lettres de gage, the bank will be able to issue senior unsecured debt. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter is programme arranger and will also manage a Eu1bn Euro commercial paper programme for PBI.
  • A month after luring Andrew Pisker from BNP Paribas as its new head of global markets, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson this week hired two of his colleagues from the French bank, David Ovenden and Sean Park, as well as Stephen West, four months after he left Merrill Lynch. Pisker's arrival at Dresdner had prompted immediate speculation that he would take other members of his team over to the German bank, but West's arrival was a surprise.
  • * Citibank NA Rating: Aa2/AA-/AA
  • Bullish non-farm payroll data released last Friday proved the catalyst for a dramatic reversal in sentiment this week and the trigger for an avalanche of new dollar debt. The result was a record weekly volume of more than $19bn. According to US based bond analysts, this total exceeds the previous record of $18.13bn set in March 1999.
  • Denmark Tele Danmark is raising a Eu650m CP back-up facility, led by Unibank. The loan will take the borrower's CP programme from Eu350m to Eu1bn.