Gazprom-Neft leads nix rumours of changes

Bankers close to a long-awaited $1bn pre-export financing for Russia’s Gazprom-Neft insisted this week that the deal was still on track to launch shortly, with no alterations to its structure. This is despite rumours in the last fortnight that more banks had been angling to join the facility at the top level, and that the mooted pricing could have changed.