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Australia Syndicate positions for the Telstra's secondary stock sale will be revealed on Monday. The A$18bn deal is due to be launched at the end of September and will be sold in four tranches.

Expect news early next week on a large syndicated facility for a UK financial institution. The second of the two, long awaited, regulatory driven sales of generating assets held by the two main UK generators - Power Gen plc and National Power - has been effectively concluded.

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Dutch publisher VNU injected new vigour into the vibrant European acquisition finance market this week, mandating ABN Amro and Merrill Lynch to arrange a $3bn bridging loan to fund its $3.5bn purchase of Nielsen Media Research, the US-based TV ratings company.

The autumn new issue season in the euro sector will start with a bang next week with Allgemeine Hypothekenbank leading a slew of deals with its Eu5bn jumbo Pfandbrief. The issue will be launched on Wednesday via joint bookrunners ABN Amro, Deutsche, DG Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and WestLB. Bankers also expect Mannesmann's five year Eu2bn issue to emerge next week via a lead management group of Deutsche, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and Warburg Dillon Read.

The Royal Bank of Scotland will next week launch its £480m securitisation of train leases for West Coast Train Finance. A London investor presentation yesterday (Thursday) capped two and a half weeks of roadshows for the bond, which will finance the acquisition of 53 new high speed trains for the London to Manchester and Glasgow train lines, operated by a Virgin Rail Group owned company. Bookrunnner and lead manager RBS is to price the 10.5 years average life bond toward the end of the week. Market talk suggests a price range of 170bp/190bp over the 2012 Gilt, although RBS syndicate officials did not return calls seeking confirmation.

France Merrill Lynch, Paribas and Royal Bank of Scotland (Paris) will launch syndication of the senior debt backing the buy-out of 40% of the Le Figaro in September. Equity sponsor is the Carlyle Group which is buying the stake from Socpresse, the French publishing firm.

The traditional late summer lull meant a quiet week for US new issues, but continued market jitters made conditions bumpy for companies that sought to get their deals away this week. This week's debut from Wink Communications confirmed, however, that there is plenty of appetite for the right name. Wink provides a low-cost enhanced television broadcasting system which allows interactive programming, letting TV viewers request information and buy products from their homes.

Korean analysts have expressed fears that some of the banking sector deals in the pipeline will not make it to market in the wake of the disastrous $1bn issue for Hanvit Bank a fortnight ago. Falling confidence in the Korean banking sector and a crisis-ridden Daewoo Group helped force Hanvit Bank to price its GDR offering at a 21% discount to the local stock. Hanvit is a major creditor of Daewoo.

Uncertainty surrounds the fate of the planned debut euro denominated bond by Israeli power utility Israel Electric Copra (IEC). Last month the state owned borrower announced that it had mandated Salomon Smith Barney and Warburg Dillon Read to run the books on a Eu300m-Eu500m seven to 10 year euro bond set to be launched in September. The planned issue was set to form part of IEC's $1bn fundraising programme for 1999-2000.