Third time lucky? Bharti raises loan hopes with Zain bid

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Third time lucky? Bharti raises loan hopes with Zain bid

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Asia’s loan market looks set to get its third chance to provide acquisition funding to India’s Bharti Airtel after the firm agreed on Monday to pay $10.7bn for the African operations of Kuwaiti telecom group Zain.

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