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Spreads are back at pre-Iran war levels, but still offer a premium to western Europe
The company is expanding outside Turkey, such as into Saudi Arabia
Turkey's central bank increased inflation forecasts on Thursday due to rising energy prices
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Belarus’s state-owned BeIinvestbank is in talks to raise a €50m syndicated loan, in a rare international deal for the country. -
It is the 10th anniversary of Lehman’s collapse and we are being inundated with retrospectives and predictions of what will cause the next crisis. Many are pointing towards emerging markets as a likely catalyst, a logical conjecture given the tightening in monetary policy that is underway in the US.
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The Central Bank of Turkey delivered a larger-than-expected interest rate hike this week that was given a cautious welcome by emerging markets bond syndicate bankers hoping to see some stability in the lira. Loans bankers working on a crucial $930m loan refinancing for Akbank — seen as a litmus test of foreign lenders' appetite to roll over loans to the financial sector — were nonplussed by the move, but still expressed confidence in rolling the bulk of the funds.
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The Turkish central bank, in a remarkable display of independence, has raised its weekly repo rate by 625bp, combatting its runaway inflation but making recession a more likely prospect, according to one investor.
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Ukraine’s ViOil has returned to the market for an $80m loan, with the cooking oil company managing to stretch the tenor of its bank debt from one to three years.
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Akbank has been defiant in the face of claims from pockets of the loan market that its latest deal will not gain enough traction to fully refinance the loan it is replacing, claiming that a 100% rollover is still a possibility.
