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The familiar problem of inter-creditor opacity has also reappeared
Company in 'no doubt' a public trade would have delivered better pricing
As with other private placements from Africa, observers have questioned the merits of the format
Benin reaped the rewards of its sukuk debut last week, and will do so for years to come
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Russia's VTB Bank has signed an agreement with African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to boost trade finance cooperation between the two in Africa. The announcement comes on the heels of the inaugural Russia-Africa summit held this week in Sochi, during which a number of trade deals were said to have been signed.
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South Africa is poised to lose its final investment grade rating when Moody's conducts a review of its score a week from Friday. That has the potential to throw South African borrowers' funding plans into chaos following a year of of healthy, tightly priced issuance. Mariam Meskin and Ross Lancaster report. -
The World Bank’s pioneering pandemic bond has failed to recognise what the World Health Organisation has said is the second largest Ebola epidemic ever, which took place in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is a gross failure, but the jury is still out on using such instruments to fund disaster response in the developing world.
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Egyptian finance minister Mohamed Maait tells GlobalMarkets about his plans to increase private sector participation in the economy and attract more foreign investment as he nears an agreement with the IMF for a new funding package
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The World Bank is hoping to step up its activity as an intermediary in commodity hedging transactions, providing credit enhancements for its clients in their arrangements with insurers to protect them from external shocks
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Kenya’s acting finance minister tells GlobalMarkets that he expects to conclude a new standby loan facility with the International Monetary Fund by the end of the year as part of a strategy to reduce its debt stock
