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Published on 12/15/2008 in the Prospect News Investment Grade Daily.

New Issue: GE Capital sells $1 billion reopened three-year FDIC-backed notes at Libor plus 93 bps

By Angela McDaniels

Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 15 - General Electric Capital Corp. priced a reopened $1 billion of three-year series G floating-rate senior notes backed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., according to a 424B3 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The non-callable notes (Aaa/AAA/) priced at 100.1435 with a coupon of three-month Libor plus 93 basis points.

The company initially sold $1 billion of the notes at par on Dec. 4 and $250 million of notes at 100.009 on Dec. 9. The total amount of notes sold is now $2.25 billion.

The underwriter for the latest tranche was HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

The underwriters for the notes priced on Dec. 4 and Dec. 9 were Banc of America Securities LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc.

Fairfield, Conn.-based General Electric Capital is the financing arm of General Electric Co., a technology, media and financial services company.

Issuer:General Electric Capital Corp.
Guarantor:Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Issue:FDIC-backed series G senior floating-rate notes
Amount:$1 billion reopening
Maturity:Dec. 9, 2011
Bookrunner:HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
Coupon:Three-month Libor plus 93 bps, payable quarterly
Price:100.1435
Call option:Non-callable
Trade date:Dec. 11
Settlement date:Dec. 18
Ratings:Moody's: Aaa
Standard & Poor's: AAA
Total amount:$2.25 billion, including $1 billion priced on Dec. 4 and $250 million priced on Dec. 9

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