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* Sofinloc, a finance company owned by Portugal's Banco Finantia, this week launched its second securitisation of car loans, auto leases and long term rental contracts, with a Eu100m deal lead managed by Deutsche Bank. KV Prabhakar, head of asset backed syndication and trading at Deutsche Bank in London, said the deal was the first of many to come this year from Portugal, where the already enthusiastic interest in securitisation has been strengthened by the passing of a securitisation law last year.

Australian Mortgage Securities Ltd, the non-bank mortgage financing programme owned by ABN Amro Bank, launched its second Euromarket MBS this week after a high profile roadshow in Europe. A regular issuer in the Australian domestic market, AMS made its international debut last July, in the midst of the spate of Australian MBS that pushed spreads to unprecedentedly wide levels.

Risk managers are primarily concerned with the risk of low-probability events that could lead to catastrophic losses.

THE AUSTRALIAN bond markets have taken their first steps into the internet revolution with news this week that both Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and Telstra Corp are laying plans to sell

GREATER CHINA's borrowers stirred for the first time this year after the launch of a dollar deal by Sun Hung Kai Properties, the filing of a benchmark offering by Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) and the repositioning by the People's Republic of China (PRC) in advance of a potential dollar offering.

Crayfish Co Ltd will become the first Japanese company to complete a dual listing when the internet services company lists on the new MOTHERS market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and on Nasdaq later this month. Crayfish will sell 1,000 shares in a public offering in Japan

Australia Merrill Lynch has completed an accelerated global bookbuild exercise to sell 13m News Corporation preference shares on behalf of an undisclosed customer.

THE REPUBLIC of the Philippines embarked on global roadshows this week for a deal that observers believe may either make or break its reputation in the international debt markets.

THE HONG KONG internet and technology stock bandwagon gathered yet more momentum this week, ignoring the volatility on the international traditional stock markets and responding to more record highs on Nasdaq. Shares in Tom.com surged more than 400% on their March 1 debut. Huge demand from retail investors in Hong Kong is underpinning international institutional demand and should provide the platform for more stunning debuts from several other stocks due to list in Hong Kong and overseas, including HK.com, SUNeVision and Sunday Communications.

ASIA PULP & Paper (APP) has stepped back into the international debt markets for the first time in over two years with the launch this week of a $350m bond offering for its China operations.

AS FORESHADOWED in EW641, Argentine cable company CableVisión this week launched a $100m three year callable Euro/144A issue via WestLB. Issued off the borrower's $1.5bn global MTN programme, the offering was priced with a 12.5% coupon to give a spread of 608bp over the three year US Treasury. Initial price guidance had been 575bp-610bp over the US government bond benchmark, with WestLB reporting that demand had built around the 12.5% coupon level - hence launch pricing at the wide end of the range. The transaction is callable as of March 2, 2002 at 102.25.

CALLAHAN Associates is set to tap the European loan and high yield markets for up to Eu4.5bn to help finance its acquisition of the controlling stakes in the cable networks of North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg, Germany.