Russia's VimpelCom signs $1.8bn loan at breakneck speed

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Russia's VimpelCom signs $1.8bn loan at breakneck speed

A loan of up to $1.8bn for Russian telecoms company Vimpelcom has been rushed through signing so quickly that a senior loan banker who had been working on the deal did not know it had been completed.

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