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A BUSY pipeline is beginning to build in the sterling high yield corporate bond sector following the launch of the largest deal in the nascent market to date. Last Friday, bookrunner Goldman Sachs launched a two tranche sterling/dollar financing for UK telecom and cable TV company Diamond Holdings.

* Santander International Ltd

Croatia

* Bank Austria AG

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank will next week award Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Paribas the prized mandate for its first euro-denominated global bond, Euroweek has learnt.

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank will next week award Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Paribas the prized mandate for its first euro-denominated global bond, Euroweek has learnt.

Argentina

Belgium

FANNIE MAE took the international bond markets by storm once again this week when it launched the second issue from its benchmark note programme. Already the triple-A rated US agency's strategy of issuing highly liquid deals appears to be paying dividends in terms of the pricing it can achieve.

FANNIE MAE took the international bond markets by storm once again this week when it launched the second issue from its benchmark note programme. Already the triple-A rated US agency's strategy of issuing highly liquid deals appears to be paying dividends in terms of the pricing it can achieve. The $4bn 10 year deal, led by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, was judged an equal success to the similarly sized five year deal which kicked off Fannie Mae's programme in early January.

TO HOWLS of disapproval, the Polish government this week awarded the keenly sought mandate to lead manage the flotation of Telekomunikacja Polska (TPSA) to a consortium of Schroders and Powszechny Bank Kredytowy. Rival investment bankers faulted the process in which the Poles had decided the mandate, claiming that they had been subjected to too many requests for unorthodox underwriting agreements. They also criticised the government for being too inflexible about the structure of the forthcoming deal. Some put forward obscure political reasons for Schroders' success.

* BBV International Finance Ltd