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Brazil The $100m facility arranged by West LB (New York) for BEAL Brazil was signed on November 25.

LEBANON's Bank of Beirut launched the maiden transaction off its newly established $150m Euro-CD programme this week. The debt issuance shelf was arranged by Middle East Capital Group which ran the books on the $30m three year transaction -- which marked the first time that a Middle Eastern investment bank has been appointed sole lead manager on a Eurobond from the region.

CO-ORDINATING arrangers of the $100m five year revolving credit for Magyar Olaj-es Gazipari (MOL) -- Bayerische Landesbank, Citibank, Deutsche and Sumitomo -- report that appetite in the club syndication has been strong and that more than $100m will be raised. However, speculation that the deal's pricing was determined by MOL's secondary market price continues to spread through the market.

INVESTORS in Germany's Neuer Markt are still piling into new issues, despite this week's consolidation on world stockmarkets. Although the main Frankfurt market was caught up in this week's downturn, Neuer Markt stocks were unaffected and the primary market welcomed two new entrants.

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JAPANESE investment bank Nomura announced this week that it would seek a stockmarket listing for its Unique Pub Company in the next three years. The newly created firm will be a vehicle for most of its pubs -- which have been acquired through the purchases of Inntrepreneur, Spring Inns and Phoenix Inns. The exceptions will be those that are in dispute with their tenants over leasing arrangements. The news highlights a move by many private equity specialists toward spinning off their assets on the stockmarkets.

MEXICAN oil group Pemex will launch its jumbo securitisation today (Friday) and looks set to increase the landmark deal from $1.5bn to $1.7bn after receiving strong demand from all investor groups in the US and Europe.

From January 1999 Jan Villem Noome, senior vice president and head of European syndicated loans at ABN Amro in Amsterdam will take up the position of deputy regional manager of corporate banking at ABN Amro's regional office in Amsterdam. In an unusual step, ABN has decided to fill the post with two bankers -- Madeleine Jacobs and Rob Koopmans.

LEAD MANAGERS Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and Robert Fleming have priced the global stock offering of SanLam, one of South Africa's premier insurance groups. The transaction involved a demutualisation in the local market, a recycling of stock from policyholders and the sale of new shares to international institutional investors. Despite the fragile condition of the Johannesburg stockmarket, the deal was three times oversubscribed with high quality orders coming in particularly from UK buyers.

* John Hancock Global Funding Ltd Rating: AA+