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  • The influx of refugees into the southern Mediterranean and eastern Europe has dominated European politics for the last 12 months, but the economic implications have been overlooked. While it presents a short term cost, it could offer long term benefits — if handled well
  • African Export-Import Bank has mandated six banks for a benchmark dollar bond roadshow that starts on Thursday.
  • Oil products storage and distribution firm Puma Energy has increased the size of its latest revolver to $800m from $500m, with 35 lenders making commitments. The company has also managed to extend the maturity on part of a three year facility raised last year.
  • Barclays made a convincing start to its plan of reducing its stake in Barclays Africa on Wednesday night, with a successful block trade that netted $4bn of demand from what bankers on it said was a very high quality group of institutions.
  • A consortium including Bob Diamond’s Atlas Merchant Capital is still pursuing a potential bid for Barclays Africa, even after Barclays sold a 12% stake in it in a block trade on Wednesday night, and a senior regulator said a private equity bid would not be welcome.
  • Investors are running to Daddy over Mozambique’s debt position. In this case, Daddy is the IMF, which is being asked to report the state of play in the country’s debt. But the IMF is right not to want any involvement. This is a risk for investors to handle.