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Six Spanish lenders, mostly regional savings banks, launched a Eu513.9m securitisation of mortgages this week through joint bookrunners Crédit Agricole Indosuez and EBN Banco. TDA-12 is the second MBS issue this year managed by Spanish securitisation management company Titulización de Activos (TdA).

Ireland's largest building society, EBS, launched its first securitisation this week with a Eu495m residential mortgage deal, Emerald Mortgages No 1 plc, lead managed by UBS Warburg. EBS Building Society is one of the top six mortgage lenders in Ireland, with a 14% market share. Jackie Gilroy, general manager of property finance at EBS in Dublin, said that owing to Ireland's rapidly growing housing market, the building society had been forced to seek new forms of funding.

Finaref, the consumer finance subsidiary of French retail group Pinault Printemps Redoute, made its first venture into the public debt market this week by securitising 46,000 unsecured consumer loans. Sole manager Crédit Lyonnais claimed that the Eu271.381m deal is the first public securitisation to use the French 'compartment' system, which allows for separate transactions to be issued through the same FCC (fonds commun de créances, the French securitisation vehicle).

French bank Natexis Banques Populaires launched its first securitisation this week to rid its balance sheet of the risk on a portfolio of mostly US investment grade corporate bonds. The synthetic CBO, Natix plc, references $412.5m of bonds on the bank's balance sheet, and involved the issue of Eu48.02m of notes and a super-senior credit default swap placed with an OECD bank. The deal was arranged by Natexis with Lehman Brothers and Natexis as joint bookrunners on the senior tranche. Lehman placed the junior notes.

* RBS Financial Markets has sold the last $800m of the $2bn 'A1' tranche of its Sabre Funding No 1 Ltd collateralised bond obligation. The $2.25bn deal, launched in November by Greenwich NatWest, parcelled a diverse pool of US, European and Japanese asset backed securities, some of which came from the books of US asset manager Liberty Hampshire, which owns the $50m equity piece.

RBS Financial Markets this week closed a repackaging of £34m of the £60m 'D' tranche of Aurora Funding (No 1) plc, the securitisation of Sumitomo Bank's UK corporate loans that Lehman Brothers (books) and Greenwich NatWest lead managed in April 1998. The deal used RBS's Lunar Funding III Ltd repackaging programme, incorporated in the Cayman Islands. The programme's Series 10 issue comprised £22.1m of 'A' notes rated A3 by Moody's and £11.9m of 'B' bonds rated Ba1.

RBS Financial Markets this week released details of the synthetic mortgage securitisation it has arranged for UK bank Bristol & West. The use of synthetic technology to parcel assets other than corporate loans began with two mortgage transactions in Germany in 1998 and is fast gaining widespread acceptance. But Bristol & West's £300m deal, foreshadowed in EW 650 in April, is only the second synthetic MBS in the UK.

Deutsche Bank launched and closed three large synthetic securitisations this week to clear assets from the group's balance sheet before the quarter end accounting deadline. Together with the bank's Globe 2000-1 securitisation of loans to large corporates, launched on June 16, the spate of deals has transferred around Eu10.17bn of credit risk to the capital markets. The rush to complete the transactions led to brief marketing periods for some of the deals and may have meant Deutsche had to make concessions on price, but the bonds appeared to have sold well at the offered spreads.

Despite the growth of exotic-type options, some of the most basic hedging strategies are still popular as they fulfill basic hedging needs in a simple and effective way.

PSA Corp, the Singapore government controlled port authority, has selected DBS Group, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and UBS Warburg as joint global co-ordinators and bookrunners for its IPO, which could raise as much as S$3.75bn. Credit Suisse First Boston, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Salomon Smith Barney and Nomura were the other banks that submitted bids for the mandate. PSA is controlled by government investment holding company Temasek Holdings. Temasek last month stated that the listing would not take place as quickly as many had hoped. There had been reports that the deal would be completed in the third quarter. However, a spokesperson for Temasek said that the IPO should take place within 12 months, providing market conditions were suitable.

UNITED Engineers Malaysia (UEM), the highly indebted construction group, plans to raise up to $1.3bn through the listing of its toll road concession company later this year. Merrill Lynch has secured the prestigious Malaysian mandate to co-ordinate the global element of the offering. Commerce International Merchant Bankers will handle the domestic IPO.

CHINA Unicom set a new benchmark for Asian companies in the equity markets this week when it raised $4.92bn through its audacious IPO, led by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. If the greenshoe is exercised, the jumbo placement will total $5.65bn.