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  • Tullow Oil, the oil company headquartered in London but with operations predominantly in Africa, has signed $2.5bn of reserve-based lending (RBL) facilities to refinance existing deals with its relationship banks.
  • Equity investors initially responded positively this week to Steinhoff International’s fresh attempts to shore up its operations, helping the dual-listed retail company's share price rebound, before it dropped again on Thursday amid talk of possible legal action and calls for the board to resign.
  • South Africa’s distressed Steinhoff has moved its meeting with lenders from Monday to next Tuesday, following its revelation on accounting irregularities last week.
  • Global Telecom, a telecommunications company founded in Egypt and headquartered in the Netherlands, has extended a $200m loan by six months.
  • Steinhoff International’s revelation of accounting irregularities has smashed the reputation of a company that had been widely admired as a daring and astute user of capital markets. Sam Kerr, Virginia Furness, Aidan Gregory, Silas Brown and Bianca Boorer examine how the retailer's troubles have rocked confidence among bond, equity and loan investors and even shaken appetite for South African risk.
  • Investors may be quick to pass off Steinhoff’s collapse as an idiosyncratic corporate event, but the fall of one of South Africa’s biggest companies is a severe blow to a country struggling to cling on to its image.