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Some say UAE central bank liquidity has prompted banks to retrench
Cracks emerge in underlying quality as banks appear to teeter further into cautiousness
The trade may persuade other top-tier GCC sovereigns that the public market is open
The sovereign is focusing on price, not size
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Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co (Kufpec) has mandated banks for a five year loan of around $1bn, according to two sources. -
HSBC has appointed Gareth Thomas as head of global banking for the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. He starts in the new job in September.
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Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) is working to get the final part of its second export credit agency-backed loan by the end of this quarter. The deal will wrap up the multibillion dollar-equivalent financing for one of the largest brownfield projects in the Middle East.
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Maaden Bauxite and Alumina Co has amended and refinanced $2.1bn-equivalent of long term debt. The subsidiary of Saudi Arabian Mining Co has locked in better terms on its debt than the loans being replaced.
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Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank has returned to the Asian loan market after two years absence, plotting a $400m deal that has already been partly taken up by lead bank Mizuho.
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There is a sense that banks in the Middle East are being encouraged to pledge allegiance in the public bond markets to either Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates or to Qatar, as the diplomatic tensions between the two sides rumble on. But in the MTN market it is becoming clear that no such division exists.
