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  • More supranational banks will use synthetic securitization and other risk transfer techniques, specialists believe, after the African Development Bank’s trailblazing $1bn deal, revealed this week, writes Jon Hay.
  • The UK’s Gemcorp has given a $250m loan to the Zimbabwe sovereign to help the country buy essential goods, as low dollar liquidity puts the squeeze on importers.
  • The flotation of Cipla Quality Chemical Industries (CiplaQCIL) on the Ugandan stock exchange could persuade fellow African issuers to follow suit.
  • African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has for the first time turned exclusively to the Korean banking market to sign a $150m club loan.
  • The African Development Bank has become the first supranational bank to use a securitization sold to private investors to free up balance sheet capacity. The deal, four years in the making, demonstrates a new technique that could expand development banks’ firepower to promote development.
  • The African Development Bank’s $1bn synthetic securitization is not its first risk transfer transaction, and will not be its last. The bank has marked itself out as a leader in this sphere, though the effort to get such techniques to work is also highly collaborative.