GLOBALCAPITAL INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, a company

incorporated in England and Wales (company number 15236213),

having its registered office at 4 Bouverie Street, London, UK, EC4Y 8AX

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  • THE THAI cabinet this week approved a privatisation master plan that failed to convince bankers and analysts. The same constituency met the announcement that Thai Airways International (THAI) would postpone its share sale until the second half of 1999 with resigned dismay. The cabinet proposal is believed to contain few concrete measures. "It seems likely that the details of this plan are not known because they do not exist," said one head of research.
  • Australia Australia's Optus Communications could finally be nearing floatation, with the company saying this week it may soon break even and sees no impediment to a sale. Lead managers Merrill Lynch and Warburg Dillon Read remained more cautious and declined to speculate on a date for the transaction.
  • MALAYSIAN conglomerate MUI Media looks set to complete a HK$359m ($46.33m) private placement of South China Morning Post (Holdings) shares this week, defying the near-drying up of the Hong Kong primary market. Analysts said large fluctuations in the share price of SCMP * remarkable even against the recent background of dramatic daily changes in the Hang Seng index * have raised suspicions that a sale was imminent.
  • Ghana Standard Chartered and Ghana International Bank have received an excellent response from banks at the co-arranging level of the $320m pre-export finance facility for Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod).
  • ACQUISITIVE Dutch supermarket group, Ahold, is pressing ahead with its $2bn equity offering in one of the first post-summer tests of sentiment in primary European equity markets.
  • China SG Asia has launched a $30m fundraising for Guangdong International Trust & Investment Corp.
  • Australia Warburg Dillon Read is close to completing the sale of the $125m financing for Orogen Minerals.
  • * General Electric Capital Corp Rating: Aaa/AAA
  • SECONDARY market spreads tightened this week, but the improvement in credit spreads offered scant consolation for borrowers and investors as bond markets continued to be buffeted by events outside the Euromarkets. Any hopes that the global financial turmoil might abate this week were swept aside when the Dow fell 6.5% on Monday, wiping out the year's gains and taking the index to levels not seen since the Asian crisis erupted last autumn.
  • Craig Pettengell, manager, customised reinsurance, St Paul Re explains the thinking behind the company's insurance securitisation -- the $68.5m George Town Re transaction. "The main reason we did George Town Re was that we could not get the retrocessional capacity to do the job we wanted to get done. We saw attractive business opportunities which -- if we had more capacity -- we could exploit. That has definitely turned out to be the case.