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Even if ceasefire succeeds, investors will still want a risk premium
Demand allowed the bank to cut the yield by 35bp
The country offers huge potential and possible pitfalls for investors
A piece of very rare African senior bank issuance could also come this week
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Zenith Bank of Nigeria is signing a $300m loan today – its first in the international syndicated loan market. The deal was increased from $250m after being oversubscribed. -
Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement (the West African Development Bank) will raise $1.35bn in the regional capital markets over the next four years. The bank also announced plans to borrow $460m from international capital markets at a board meeting in Benin last week.
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Strong deals from Liquid Telecom, Fidelity Bank, Lake Turkana Wind Power and Africa Finance Corp in recent weeks have highlighted the popularity of supranational and telecoms deals in Africa.
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Lake Turkana Wind Power, the Kenyan wind power project, has signed a $625m loan, the largest single private investment in Kenya.
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Africa Finance Corp has obtained a $300m term loan from 23 banks. The deal received over $630m of commitments from investors.
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Makram Abboud is VTB Capital's chief executive officer, Middle East and Africa and vice-chairman, international. Dan Alderson spoke to him about how the bank is carving out its niche in these regions, which have become a focus for Western banks with the shut out of the Russian loan market in 2014. Abboud also discussed challenges and opportunities in the year ahead and the prospect of VTB issuing its first sukuk.
