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Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Brasil has signed a $1 billion Euro-MTN programme. The arrangers are Salomon Smith Barney and BBVA Securities. The issuer is the Brazilian arm of BBVA. The dealer group is Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs and the two arrangers.

The news that DLJ was the subject of a $90 per share bid this week did not come as a total surprise. If there was any surprise, it was that the bidder was the Credit Suisse Group, when all eyes were looking in the direction of JP Morgan - poor JPM really does need a new pair of starting blocks for Christmas. The price of $90 per share makes DLJ's managers very rich indeed. The problem for Allen Wheat and his CSFB team is to persuade the DLJ high yield wizards and its top investment banking rainmakers not to call it a day. Wheaty will be hoping that offering a mountain of Credit Suisse options for DLJ options will do the trick.

Austria Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Goldman Sachs and CAIB have been appointed global co-ordinators for the IPO of Head. The company, which makes tennis rackets and winter sports equipment, will list in New York and Vienna. The deal is scheduled for this autumn.

Natexis Banques Populaires will sign a euro2.5 billion ($2.25 billion) Euro-CP and Euro-CD programme in the next two weeks. Lehman Brothers has been awarded the arrangership. The programme will replace those of Caisse Centrale des Banques Populaires and Interfinance Natexis, each of which had a ceiling of $1.5 billion. The dealers are Banque Populaire du Luxembourg, Barclays Capital, Citibank, JP Morgan, NatWest Global Financial Markets, UBS Warburg and the arranger. Daiwa SBCM Europe, Deutsche Bank and SG have not been retained as dealers.

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DEUTSCHE BANK is launching a fully underwritten Eu480m senior debt package for broadband services provider FirstMark. Senior co-arrangers are asked to commit Eu40m for a 70bp flat fee, and co-arrangers Eu30m at 55bp.

Ford Motor Credit Co successfully launched a benchmark Eu750m five year transaction this week despite dramatic widening of its spreads, mainly in the dollar market. The spread widening followed the announcement by Bridgestone that it would recall 6.5m tyres that are the focus of an investigation into accidents that have claimed at least 88 lives. Bridgestone/Firestone and Ford are expected to face litigation in connection with the tyre recall.

Foster's Brewing Group this week completed one of Australia's largest acquisition financing packages by raising A$1.4bn through equity and exchangeable bond issues. The country's biggest brewer sold A$700m of new shares. At the same time, Foster's Securities sold $400m of exchangeable bonds into the Euromarket, raising another A$700m to partly fund the A$2.5bn acquisition of Napa Valley based Beringer Wine Estate Holdings.

Two French corporates are due to enter the Euro-MTN market by the end of the month, highlighting France as leader of the corporate sector. Retailer Casino and gas provider Total Fina Elf are to sign Euro-MTN programmes, becoming the sixth and seventh French corporates to sign in 2000. Casino plans to sign a euro2 billion ($1.8 billion) Euro-MTN facility at the end of August or beginning of September. It joins a growing sector which includes European retailers Carrefour, Kingfisher and Safeway, which joined last year, and Ahold, which joined this year. And Total Fina Elf is due to sign a euro4 billion Euro-MTN programme on August 31. The issuer was reluctant to comment on plans for the programme because it is still waiting for a programme rating. The issuer was formed at the beginning of this year after Total Fina acquired 95% of Elf Acquitaine, which continues to trade separately. Although Total Fina Elf is new to the MTN market, it has previous experience of the capital markets. It has already launched Sfr550 million ($319.2 million) worth of fixed-rate Eurobonds and a five-year euro250 million Eurobond in the public markets. Casino, rated BBB+ by Fitch, is no stranger to the Eurobond markets either. It launched a successful euro550 million five-year bond in March this year, after selling a poorly received seven-year euro500 million bond last year. Deutsche Bank is the arranger off Casino's shelf and it joins 12 other dealers in the panel: ABN Amro, Credit Agricole Indosuez, Credit Lyonnais, Credit Mutuel CIC, Credit Suisse First Boston, Daiwa SBCM Europe, HSBC, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Natexis Banques Populaires, BNP Paribas and Salomon Smith Barney. Total Fina Elf's dealers are ABN Amro, Credit Agricole Indosuez, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, UBS Warburg and the arranger, Salomon Smith Barney. The issuer is rated Aa2 by Moody's and AA by Standard & Poor's.