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FOUR technology issues from Taiwan are lined up for a September launch with Synnex Technology, Hon Hai Precision, Mosel Vitelic and CMC Magnetics all pre-marketed this week. ABN Amro and Jardine Fleming are joint leads for Synnex Technology's $200m GDR sale. The company is the country's largest distributor of IT and

There was a flurry of issuance this week in the Australian domestic market with the successful completion of a A$400m issue for AIG, a A$600m bond for GE Capital Australia and a A$300m launch for John Hancock. Salomon Smith Barney and Warburg Dillon Read lead managed the triple-A rated Kangaroo bond for AIG Sunamerica Institutional Funding, with Merrill Lynch and RBC DS as co-leads.

ABN Amro and Warburg Dillon Read will launch a roadshow for the sale of San Miguel's (SMC) A$1.3bn stake in Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) next week. Jardine Fleming - which had been expected to lead the sale with ABN Amro when Euroweek revealed the sale plan in June - is not in the deal, for which there is no syndicate. Bank officials declined to comment.

Australia Pricing for the St George Bank auto loan securitisation deal came within the tight end of the range given last week. The A$571m issue for Crusade Auto Trust was the first pure auto loan securitisation from Australia and the first from a commercial bank.

Hong Kong Pacific Century Cyberworks has mandated Credit Suisse First Boston as lead manager for a possible equity fundraising. The company was set up through a reverse listing, structured by BNP Prime Peregrine, and houses the property assets for the government's planned cyberpark.

The 25bp rise in the US Fed funds rate announced after the FOMC meeting on Tuesday set a constructive tone across all the markets, giving most participants confidence that rates will not be increased again before the end of the year. After several months of volatility, some semblance of stability returned to the dollar sector and a rally in corporate spreads allowed Wells Fargo to increase its global transaction to $1.5bn from $1bn. The deal, evenly split into two tranches of a two year FRN and a three year fixed rate bond, was led jointly by Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter were joint lead managers for Wells Fargo's $1.5bn two year floater and three year bullet. The floating rate tranche was priced to yield Libor plus 20bp at the re-offer and the bullet tranche was priced at the tight end of expectations to yield 91bp over the off-the-run 6.25% August 2002 Treasury. The borrower was last week talked of as wishing to swap the three year tranche into floating; although the borrower could not be reached for comment, more than one shop confirmed that Wells Fargo had been asking for three year bids on Tuesday afternoon.

Rating: AAA Amount: Eu238.708m (fungible with Eu511.292m issue launched 10/03/98) Öffentlicher Pfandbrief series 125

France Salomon Smith Barney will launch syndication of the Ffr5.4bn senior leveraged debt backing the creation of Capital BSN Emballage SA out of the merger of Gerresheimer's and Danone's glass packaging business. Heavy interest is expected, after the success of the co-arranging phase which was immensely successful.

Denmark Loan market bankers are gearing up for the imminent launch of a $1bn acquisition related credit for AP Möller arranged by HSBC and JP Morgan. Market talk suggests the five year revolver will be priced at around 37.5bp over Libor.

Amount: Eu500m Öffentlicher Pfandbrief series 670 Maturity: August 30, 2005