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Qatar National Bank (QNB) has signed a $3.5bn loan with 21 international banks, with one of those also selling over $2.3bn of MTNs for the issuer, showing that banks’ jitters about supporting Qatari entities in the wake of the dispute between the sultanate and six other Arab states have partly been assuaged. Bianca Boorer and Virginia Furness report. -
German robotics maker Kuka has signed a refinancing facility, ramping up the size of its syndicated bank borrowing by €120m.
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GlobalCapital revealed the winners of its 2017 Loan Awards at its annual Loans and Leveraged Finance Awards Dinner at Gibson Hall in London on February 7. The full results are below: GlobalCapital congratulates all the winners and nominees.
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Koenig & Bauer, the German printing press maker, has made its debut in the syndicated loan market, agreeing facilities totalling up to €400m from eight banks.
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The Republic of Poland exceeded its own and its leads’ hopes when it issued its second green bond this week. Piotr Nowak, undersecretary of state at Poland's finance ministry, told GlobalCapital that with 41% of green accounts participating, the sovereign had succeeded in diversifying its investor base.
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The Republic of Poland has set final terms for its €1bn 8.5 year green bond, with books over €3.4bn at the last market update. A banker away from the deal called the final level tight.
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Equity investors have entered the New Year hungry for assets. Demand on deals has well exceeded initial volumes, leading to issuers increasing sale sizes.
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Avedon Capital Partners, Bain Capital, Black Diamond and Cinven have launched the first post-IPO selldown of shares in JOST Werke, the German maker of axles and chassis for lorries and trailers which listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in July 2017.
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While Tuesday brought a flurry of euro benchmarks, the pace of issuance will slacken on Wednesday as the market battens down for a busy week of US data announcements.
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A trio of Europe’s less frequent public sector borrowers are set to hit screens for euro transactions on Tuesday, following a long end benchmark from a French agency on January 26.
