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  • France became the first euro zone country to offer investors an inflation linked bond this week with the launch of its OATi. The template may be followed by other borrowers in the new single currency bloc. Despite losing ground to Germany in the race to become the euro-benchmark issuer in recent months, the move helped France impress market participants by maintaining its reputation as an innovative borrower.
  • * KfW International Finance Guarantor: Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
  • Undaunted by the current turmoil in international stockmarkets and past failures, the Greek government is set to press ahead with its privatisation programme. The government this week revealed details of its planned issue of privatisation convertible bonds, dubbed 'Balladur Bonds' after the French example of 1992.
  • Asset backed securities: * Celtic Residential Irish Mortgage Securitisation No 2 plc
  • ING and BBL have moved to streamline the management of their developed market fixed income operations, setting up a multi-centre unit to be called ING Barings BBL. The move follows the acquisition earlier this year of BBL by ING.
  • International placement agents Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and Robert Fleming this week committed to underwrite the sale of stock in Bank Leumi by subscribing to 75% of the shares on offer, worth $80m. The three firms have been selling the bank's shares to international investors before a pre-commitment which will fix the minimum price payable for the shares.
  • Turkey HypoVereinsbank and Citibank have closed general syndication of the $15m one year refinancing for Alternatif Bank. The loan is in documentation and will be signed next week.
  • Global co-ordinators Deutsche Bank and BBL have launched the sale of shares in Belgian mobile telephone operator Mobistar. "The appetite for telephony stocks has not run out of steam," argued one sector analyst. "Before the correction in global markets, this was still the hottest sector to be and now it also gives potential buyers a feeling of safety, especially if the operator is in a safe market."
  • * Global co-ordinators, ABN Amro and Goldman Sachs are to price the Dfl 4bn sale of stock and convertible bonds for Dutch supermarket group, Ahold next week. Bankers from just about every firm in London and the Netherlands are waiting on the deal which could prove a strong test of investor sentiment towards corporate equity. Momentum in both the stock and the convertible book is building faster than in any other deal in the market.
  • CVC Capital Partners has announced three appointments. In Paris, Etienne Keller joins as an investment manager from Arthur Andersen, Paris, where he was in charge of due diligence and audit assignment for three years. Anthony Fobel joins the London office as an investment director from Lehman Brothers, where he was a director of corporate finance.
  • ABSA Bank, as revealed in Euroweek 568, is the latest South African borrower to attempt to tap the international syndicated loan market. The bank has mandated a large group of arrangers - American Express Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Deutsche Bank (bookrunner), DG Bank (agent), Dresdner Bank Luxembourg, Greenwich NatWest (bookrunner) and Standard Chartered - to arrange a 364 day term loan. Pricing is a healthy 40bp over Libor.
  • ABSA Bank, as revealed in Euroweek 568, is the latest South African borrower to attempt to tap the international syndicated loan market. The bank has mandated a large group of arrangers - American Express Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Deutsche Bank (bookrunner), DG Bank (agent), Dresdner Bank Luxembourg, Greenwich NatWest (bookrunner) and Standard Chartered - to arrange a 364 day term loan. Pricing is a healthy 40bp over Libor.