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The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has signed a $300m Shariah-compliant financing for Egypt. -
The Dubai office of international law firm Norton Rose has advised a syndicate of fourteen banks in relation to a senior unsecured US$900 million syndicated facility for First Gulf Bank PJSC (FGB). The facility is the largest loan market transaction undertaken by a financial institution in the UAE this year and is to be used by FGB for its general corporate purposes, including the expansion of its existing operations as well as its growing global footprint.
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Abu Dhabi and its companies were the centre of attention for Middle East investors this week, after it emerged that the emirate’s authorities recently approved a new policy to rein in borrowing by its deeply indebted government related entities.
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London, 26th September 2012: Bank of London and The Middle East plc, Europe’s largest Islamic bank, announces a significant senior secured transaction with Greenergy Biofuels Limited. BLME acted as lead arranger, with BLME and a Qatari-based bank having equal stakes. The facility is secured against the assets of a biodiesel plant in Immingham, Humberside, UK.
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Source: Tegara Net A banking consortium clinched a deal to arrange EGP 300 million Islamic financing for Emaar Misr, which will go for repaying the developer's outstanding liabilities.
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Source: Nation Multimedia Group Public Company Ltd.
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Source: Center for Aviation Industry
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NCB has been supporting Tibah consortium for Madina International Airport. Besides providing bulk of financing, NCB is the Islamic Structuring Bank in this landmark deal. This is the first Islamically structured International Airport financing in the world. Shari’ah compliant financing is primarily asset-based. However critical infrastructure such as airports are essentially owned by governments. The private entities only receive development and operating rights for a finite period. This made the Islamic structuring all the more challenging. Despite these constraints, an unprecedented structure is designed to ensure its compliance with shariah and maintaining the project’s bankability for the sponsors at the same time
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JEDDAH, KSA, 17.07.2012 –The 284th meeting of the Board of Executive Directors of the Islamic Development Bank, which convened at IDB headquarters starting Sunday 16 July, under the chairmanship of Dr. Ahmad Mohamed Ali, President, IDB Group, approved more than US$ 1,158 million towards development projects financing for IDB member countries and Muslim communities in non-member countries. This is the largest amount of approvals by a single IDB Board meeting since the Bank’s inception in 1975.
