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  • South African gold producer Sibanye-Stillwater has refinanced an existing local currency revolving credit facility, demonstrating lender confidence in the country's borrowers despite the threat of an impending rating downgrade.
  • Europe’s lacklustre market for IPOs is showing little signs of improvement as the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the African trade finance group, pulled its $250m IPO on the London Stock Exchange, blaming “unfavourable market conditions”.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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