Issuer: Republic of Italy
Date: August 1998
Amount: £300 million ($492 million)
Bookrunner: Barclays Capital
Since putting its signature on an $8 billion debt instrument programme in July last year, Italy has taken the Euro-MTN market by storm, making the first issue of its programme worthy of our MTN deal of the year award.
The programme, rumoured as far back as 1990, was greeted with considerable excitement. Roberto Isolani, managing director responsible for debt capital markets in southern Europe at Warburg Dillon Read, says: “They are probably amongst the most professional of borrowers.
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