DCM Criteria & Definitions All tables from Jan 1st 2003 to Dec 31st 2003. Asia Pacifc includes Asia, India Subcontinent and Australasia. Asia Pacific (ex Japan) includes Asia (but excludes Japan), Indian Subcontinent and Australasia. Asia (ex Japan) includes Asia (but excludes Japan) • Asia includes North Asia, South East Asia and the Indian Sub Continent North Asia: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macau, Mongolia, Taiwan. South East Asia: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam. Indian Sub Continent: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka. • Australasia includes Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands. • International Bonds: are debt securities that may take either Global or Eurobond form or be a domestically structured bond where 25% of the issue must be proven to be placed outside the country of issue in the primary markets. Government debt is included if it is underwritten by an international syndicate. Yankee and Samurai bonds are not regarded as international unless at least 25% of the bond is sold outside of the North America and Japanese markets respectively. • Cross Border (Foreign) Bonds: are debt securities that are sold into a domestic market but are issued by a non-domestic issuer (eg: Samurai issues). • Domestic Bonds: are debt securities denominated in the national currency of the issuers, underwritten by domestic banks and sold into the domestic market. This will inlcude Samurai issues in the Japan tables. Kangaroo issues in the Australian Tables. Our global rank eligiblity criteria does not apply therefore deals with shorter tenors will be inlcuded. • High Yield Bonds: are debt securities issued by industrials, corporates, sovereigns, banks and financials which have non-investment grade issuer ratings at the time of launch from Standard & Poor's, Moody's or Fitch, or which are unrated by these agencies and felt to be clearly of non-investment grade quality. • Investment Grade Bonds: are debt securities issued by industrials, corporates, banks and financials which have investment grade issuer ratings at the time of launch from Standard & Poor's, Moody's or Fitch. League Tables • All Bonds: lists the top 10 Bookrunners (by volume) of all bonds (international, cross border and domestic ) in any denomination satisfying the Dealogic global rank eligibility crtieria outlined below. • International Bonds – : lists the top 10 Bookrunners (by volume) of all bonds satisfying the international criteria. • International Bonds (G3)– : lists the top 10 Bookrunners (by volume) of all bonds satisfying the international criteria and denominated in YEN, EURO or US$. •High Yield: lists the top 10 Bookrunners (by volume) of all bonds satisfying the high yield criteria, where the deal nationality (see below) is from Asia (excluding Japan). •Investment Grade–: lists the top 10 Bookrunners (by volume) of all bonds satisfying the investment grade criteria, where the deal nationality (see below) is from Asia (excluding Japan). Domestic Bonds: lists the Top 10 Bookrunners of all bonds satisfying the domestic bonds criteria, including straight bonds, and asset and mortgage backed securities. These tables aim to capture anything that is sold domestically into that market, and therefore may include foriegn affiliated issuers. However bonds raised in the following currencies A$, Yen, HK$, S$, by foreign issuers and not specifically sold into Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore will be covered by the Currency tables section. Currency Bonds: lists the Top 10 Bookrunners of all bonds raised in that specific currency by global issuers. Our global criteria does not apply therefore shorter tenors are eligible. Transaction Eligibility • Fixed and Floating Rate issues, Medium Term Notes (MTN), Short-term debt, Securitised deals (asset-backed and mortgage backed securities), non-convertible preferred stock, collateralized debt obligations are eligible for inclusion. • Transactions from Sovereigns and Agencies will be included unless otherwise specified, Supranational issuance (e.g.: Asia Development Bank) will be excluded. • Self-led and Self-funded deals will be included unless otherwise specified. • Pre-IPO convertibles, where the company is not due to float within three years are included. • Re-openings are rank eligible and are subject to the same ranking criteria as the original offering. • Closed and open-end investment funds are eligible. • Corporate bonds and MTNs must have a minimum maturity of 18 months to be eligible for inclusion. Other debt securities must have minimum maturity of 12 months. Exclusions: • For all regional tables (Asia Pacific, AP ex Japan, Asia ex Japan) and all international tables (regional and country specific)- corporate bonds maturing less than 18 months after settlement date are excluded. For other country specific tables, bonds with a one year of more maturity are included. Maturity is defined as the legal maturity of the offering. • Deals with global proceeds of less than US$1mn. “Global proceeds” of a deal is calculated by summing the proceeds of all rank eligible tranches. Tranche proceeds are calculated by multiplying the face value of the security by the offer price. If the offer price is not disclosed 100% is assumed with the exception of zero coupon bonds which become rank ineligible. • Non-underwritten deals are excluded. Best efforts deals as they relate to MTNs are included. • Bond exchange offers where existing debt is replaced by new debt are not rank eligible unless new money is raised. If the new debt offered exceeds the debt it replaces then the difference of the proceeds is rank eligible. • Certificates of Deposit, loan-style FRNs, and money market transactions are excluded unless otherwise specified. • Auctions and non-underwritten government debt are excluded. Ranking Methodology • Nation classifications are based on deal nationality. Deal nationality reflects the nationality of the deal mandate, regardless of issuer incorporation or, in some circumstances issuer head quarters. Secured deals are categorized in terms of the nationality of the collateral. Securities issued by emerging markets subsidiaries of North American or Western European parent companies which are viewed in the market as emerging markets and priced as emerging markets are categorized in terms of the nationality of the subsidiary rather than as North American or Western European. Unsecured and non-emerging markets debt securities are categorized in terms of the business nationality of the group head. Business nationality is defined as the center of business of a company, taking business operations, revenue, headquarters and incorporation into consideration • All amounts are based on global proceeds (face value * offer price) in US$. In the event that one or more tranches of a multi-tranche deal do not meet rank eligibility qualifications those tranches are excluded from the global proceeds amount. • Proceeds are apportioned among bookrunners on a tranche by tranche basis. • Deal count consolidates all tranches of a deal. Submission Guidelines Submissions to Dealogic can be sent to the below contact details with the following items in respect to each tranche. • Issuer Name • Pricing and Settlement Date • Currency and Face value • Tenor • Coupon Details • Offer price • Issue Type • Underwriters • Credit ratings • Spread to Benchmark • Fee details • Use of proceeds Tables will be updated each week on Friday. Deals must be received by 10am on Friday for inclusion. Dealogic (Hong Kong) FAO: Debt Capital Markets Tel: 852 2528 9111 Fax: 852 2529 4377 Email: hkinfo@dealogic.com Dealogic (Tokyo) FAO: Debt Capital Markets Tel: 813 5157 1527 Fax: 813 5157 1528 Email: jpinfo@dealogic.com