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US biotechnology company Centaur Pharmaceuticals, which was to have started trading on the Swiss stock exchange this week, has postponed its IPO, blaming unstable market conditions. Centaur was to have been the first US biotechnology company listed in Switzerland, but had already been forced to reduce the size of the deal from 5.6m shares to 2.9m.

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* Crédit Local de France Rating: Aa1/AA+

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Brazil The $50m trade financing facility being arranged by Citicorp Securities for Compania Votorantim de Celulose e Papel (CELPAV) has been completed oversubscribed.

Abu Dhabi A decision on the winning bid for the Tawellah power and water desalination project should come imminently. Just two bidders remain -- CMS advised by Barclays Capital and Tractebel advised by Chase.

MBNA International Bank, the UK subsidiary of US credit card issuer MBNA, launched its sixth securitisation this week, a £250m five year floater lead managed by Barclays Capital. "The deal went very well in a volatile market," said a syndicate official at Barclays in London. "At 15bp it would have been a blowout, but at 14bp, in the middle of price talk, the paper was still oversubscribed. MBNA is very responsible in the way it approaches the market -- it knows it will have to come back to the market, and prices to achieve good secondary market performance."

* Bankgesellschaft Berlin has executed the second tranche of the DM200m car, caravan and motorcycle loan securitisation programme it has arranged for Berlin based ABC Bank. The DM45m deal, known as German Car Loans No 2, was structured as a Schuldschein loan, with a public rating of AA from Duff & Phelps. BGB placed all but DM5m of the paper with Bremer Landesbank, Sparkasse Essen, Hamburger Sparkasse and DG Bank. Two more banks are interested in the remaining portion.

WARBURG Dillon Read is marketing the subordinated tranches of a leveraged collateralised loan obligation for parent bank UBS, in preparation for a full scale launch. Eisberg will issue $500m of paper, including $422.5m of rated bonds in three tranches, rated triple-A, single-A and double-B, and a first loss portion, which UBS will retain.

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