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  • UK engineering group FKI plc beat the odds this week with the launch of a Eu600m, 10 year issue that extended the yield curve for lower rated corporates in a stormy market. The success of the A3/BBB+ rated transaction bodes well for triple-B rated FlowTex and Heidelberger Zement are set to tap the seven year sector soon.
  • Easdaq-listed French software firm Swan plans to list on Nasdaq in June with a $50m deal to be mandated next week. Swan's financial director, Dieter Muechler, told Euroweek two US banks will be mandated as issue sponsors. The frontrunners are thought to be Donaldson, Lufkin & Jentrette and SG Cowen.
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  • LATIN AMERICA'S IPO market was boosted this week when Argentine-based Impsat Fiber Networks Inc launched a blow-out $195.5m stock sale. The deal, led by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, is the first IPO this year in Latin America.
  • Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs are poised to launch the long awaited IPO for Infineon with the Siemens spinoff set to raise up to Eu6bn, making the deal the world's largest offer for a technology company. While the issue is widely expected to be a blow-out, banks involved in the deal have already begun to grumble about the size of the syndicate - saying the 14 member group will prove unwieldy and prone to disputes.
  • Republic of Italy Rating: Aa3/AA/AA-
  • JAMAICA returned to the international bond markets this week for the first time since 1998 with a Eu100m three year debut euro bond. Although considered one of the riskier emerging market credits, Jamaica's lead manager Deutsche Bank was able to attract strong European retail investor interest by offering a 10% coupon and pricing the deal to yield 10.5%, giving a spread of 572bp over the OBL 126, equivalent to 589bp over the July 2002 BTAN.
  • BNP Paribas this week launched an innovative £69.4m securitisation for the UK's Keele University, backed by rents from its student accommodation. The 30 year bond, guaranteed by monoline insurer Financial Security Assurance (UK) Ltd (FSA), will enable Keele to retire £20.5m of existing debt secured on the buildings, cover the cost of refurbishing the accommodation for the life of the deal, and still leave some £10m of spare cash for other investment.
  • General syndication has closed on the Eu13bn jumbo for Dutch telecoms company KPN, and the loan market has completed another successful jumbo acquisition financing to back European corporate restructuring. Had the facility not been scaled back, and had all the banks come in for the exact amount requested, the six arrangers would have raised Eu27.15bn from 12 lead managers and 35 co-arrangers.
  • General syndication has closed on the Eu13bn jumbo for Dutch telecoms company KPN, and the loan market has completed another successful jumbo acquisition financing to back European corporate restructuring. Had the facility not been scaled back, and had all the banks come in for the exact amount requested, the six arrangers would have raised Eu27.15bn from 12 lead managers and 35 co-arrangers.
  • LAFARGE this week breathed new life into the European loan market as well as innovation into the European equity and M&A markets through its $3.4bn hostile cash bid for UK cement producer Blue Circle.