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  • ZOLA Electric, formerly Off Grid Electric, has raised a $32.5m credit facility with development bank, FMO, and investment firm, Symbiotics.
  • Thirteen emerging market sovereigns will face their first bond market redemptions over the next seven years and, with financing conditions set to become more difficult, market participants are watching them carefully.
  • The party looks to be over in emerging market bonds leaving borrowers with one heck of a funding hangover. Years of low rates have prompted a debt splurge from borrowers able to fund at ever lower coupons. But just as dollar rates are on the increase, those credits are racing towards a $2tr maturity wall and the problem of how to refinance it in a market that has presented clear symptoms of risk fatigue this year shows no sign of abating. Lewis McLellan and Francesca Young report.
  • It was never going to last. Bitcoin has ended its three month holiday from volatility and begun to crash once more. The cryptocurrency market is looking for a new floor.
  • Cameroon’s Nachtigal Hydro Power Co has raised euro loans, estimated at above €900m, to fund construction of a €1.2bn 420MW hydroelectric plant on the Sanaga river near Yaounde. Most of the debt is coming from development finance institutions, but a few commercial banks are involved.
  • Bharti Airtel, the Indian telecommunications conglomerate, has named an eight bank syndicate for the 2019 flotation of its Africa business, Airtel Africa.