Paul:
A QIB is defined commonly as:
Primarily institutions that manage at least $100 million in securities including banks, savings and loans institutions, insurance companies, investment companies, employee benefit plans, or an entity owned entirely by qualified investors. Also included are registered broker-dealers owning and investing, on a discretionary basis, $10 million in securities of non-affiliates. It is a prerogative to use the 144A Market.
Such entities do not have 101 M Euro's laying around for 3 month, they use them immediately, even for a derivatives cover.
A three month libor plus 2 on a CD fine but franklyI can get that easier than to lock myself in.
I wonder if you could post the transaction requirements to assess the actual risk