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* ING Barings has taken a team of 10 investment bankers from Jardine Fleming Securities, Flemings' highly regarded Asian business. Hideaki Kineako joins as head of the investment banking division; he had been director of corporate finance and capital markets at Jardine Fleming since 1994.

Sumitomo Trust has been dropped as a dealer from NEC Capital's $500 million Euro-MTN programme. The programme, signed in 1998, has $172.72 million outstanding off eight trades and is rated Baa1 by Moody's.

Greece The price range for CosmOte, Greece's second mobile operator, has been narrowed to Dr3,120-Dr3,494 from Dr3,070-Dr3,750. The price was reduced by 85% from the top and 15% from the bottom.

* Winter, one of the 10 largest microprocessor and card producers in the world, priced its 31m IPO at the top of the range this week after the deal, which was run by GZ-Bank, was 14 times oversubscribed. The 2.45m shares were sold at Eu12.5 from a Eu11-Eu12.5 range. The freefloat of the company is now 38%. Of the shares issued, 50% were allocated to retail investors. Because of the excessive demand, every ninth applicant received 96 shares. The shares started trading on Monday at Eu13.7 and rose steadily through the week to close yesterday (Thursday) at Eu16.95, up 36% from the issue price.