ng that they have a very good project finance deal at hand. And one of the nso rs is Alfa. one of our most import a nt clients. " G iova nni Altieri, Director the Large Corporate Department at P ielf Bank. is talking to his assistant, nfranco Arrigoni. on the phone. 1it?'' "Very interesting, Boss," replies Gia nfranco. " Did they tell you where the y a re No , G ianfra nco, the y were very vague. They told me that they arc still in the imina ry phase, studying the operation, but they are interested in starting to tact some Italian banks to survey the market and eva luate their opinions regard ing viability of the initiative. They told me that in the next few days they'll send a very f summary report on the main information. T hey' ve asked me to look it over