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Eiichi Tanabe, acting general manager of Mitsubishi Corporation's finance department, declares that the trading company has not accessed the Eurobond markets since 1989 when it issued $1.5 billion of bonds with warrants. It is something of a trick answer - technically correct because the corporation itself has stayed away, but its London financial offshoot and other subsidiaries have remained active, with Mitsubishi Corporation Finance in London having a $12 billion programme of medium-term notes and Eurocommercial paper.

Eiichi Tanabe, acting general manager of Mitsubishi Corporation’s finance department, declares that the trading company has not accessed the Eurobond markets since 1989 when it issued $1.5 billion of bonds with warrants. It is something of a trick answer – technically correct because the corporation itself has stayed away, but its London financial offshoot and other subsidiaries have remained active, with Mitsubishi Corporation Finance in London having a $12 billion programme of medium-term notes and Eurocommercial paper.

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