Default clock ticking as GFH scrambles for debt extension

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Default clock ticking as GFH scrambles for debt extension

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The Middle East’s stricken debt markets suffered the prospect of another default this week after Gulf Finance House, the Bahraini investment bank, was understood to have told lenders it wants to defer repayment of part of a $300m syndicated loan.

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