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South Africa RMB International has increased and signed its $100m one year debut loan after it was oversubscribed and increased to $150m.

ANGLO AMERICAN plc is tapping the Euroloan market for the first time since it registered on the London Stock Exchange. The former South African and Luxembourg-based firm is raising a $500m five year revolver that will be used to refinance a similarly sized tranche of an existing facility that was arranged in the first quarter of 1996. Arrangers of the latest facility are Barclays, Deutsche Bank (joint bookrunner), Dresdner Bank Luxembourg (joint bookrunner), Paribas, Sumitomo and Warburg Dillon Read.

Warburg Dillon Read and Merrill Lynch have completed the highly successful Eu800m offering of stock in Amadeus Global Travel Distribution. The deal has taken some time to come to the markets - but with a book of demand that was more than 10 times covered, it was worth the wait. The lead managers indicated a price range between Eu4.75 and Eu6 and the shares were sold at Eu5.75. This cautious pricing reflects the turmoil in global markets during the week, when disappointing earnings from various technology groups sent Nasdaq and then the Dow Jones into a virtual tailspin with the main market loosing 200 points over two sessions.

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Will Euromarket bon- uses hit an all-time record this year? The bookmakers at Ladbrokes and William Hill are betting that the best Euromarket boys and girls will scoop a bonus pool which "will defy the imagination".

Banamex, the leading Mexican commercial bank, is the latest private sector Latin issuer to turn to the securitisation market to raise funds. Using a triple-A MBIA insurance wrap, the bank sold $250m of seven year notes backed by future dollar denominated credit card receivables in a 144a offering led by Salomon Smith Barney.