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ARRANGER Bankers Trust is looking to close syndication of the £400m debt facilities for Nomura's £700m purchase of William Hill from Brent Walker by today (Friday). However, like BT's General Healthcare deal, the arrangers is not rushing to close retail so that banks have as much time as possible to commit to the deal. Between 15 and 20 banks have already committed as senior lead managers, lead managers, managers or participants. Banks that have committed are a mixture of relationship banks, banks active in the UK buy-out sector and others.

LEAD manager Crédit Lyonnais this week completed its Ffr2.2bn capital increase for French waste management company Sita. The deal takes the form of a priority rights issue and involves the sale of new shares to existing and new investors; the proceeds will be used to finance the acquisition of Browning Ferris businesses outside the US.

Rafael Valbuena has joined WestLB's UK loan syndication team. Valbuena will work with Anton Martin, associate director, on the distribution of secondary and primary loans. Before WestLB, Valbuena was at Bank of Montreal. WestLB's UK loan syndication team is headed by Jonathan Jamilly. Peter Phillips has moved from Greenwich NatWest's Paris offices, where he was a managing director and head of European structured finance, to London where he will assume responsibility for global primary markets origination for NatWest's structured finance business.

* Caixavigo Amount: Esc5bn

* Südwestdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale Rating: Aaa/AAA

* De Nationale Investeringsbank (DNIB) Rating: Aa3/AA+

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Norway The loan facility arranged for Steen & Strom has been decreased from Nkr2bn to Nkr1.8bn, because one of the shopping centres that the facility was due to refinance opted to take out a fixed rate mortgage loan rather than a plain vanilla syndicated loan to avoid paying a higher margin. The shift in the yield curve of the Norwegian krone made that more advantageous.

* General Electric Capital Corp Rating: Aaa/AAA

MUCH is riding on the US Treasury market's reaction to the non-farm payroll figures to be released today (Friday). If the market reacts the wrong way to the US figures, it could seriously harm the World Bank's plans to launch the biggest ever fixed rate dollar transaction. The prized mandate has been awarded to Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and SBC Warburg. Market sources expect a $5bn issue to be announced on Monday with price talk on Tuesday and official launch on Wednesday. The indicated level is around 14bp over.

* Bayerische Landesbank Girozentrale Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA

Domestic issuance: * Baloise-Holding