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Vivalto Santé, the French private health service provider, has announced €228m of loans for its leveraged buyout by Mubadala Development Co, the Abu Dhabi Government owned investment and development company. -
Kuwait petrochemical firm Equate is scheduled to complete its $6bn loan this week, while Oman and Qatar continue syndicating their sovereign loans.
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Doha Bank is syndicating a $500m two year loan and commitments are due in mid-December. But at least three bankers have told GlobalCapital that they think the pricing is tight.
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Kuwait petrochemicals firm Equate is scheduled to complete syndication of $6bn of loans this week.
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Abu Dhabi based Gulf Marine Services (GMS) has signed a $620m loan refinancing and lowered the cost of the loans.
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The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) is set to launch trading of offshore RMB (CNH) futures contracts on December 18. The exchange is looking to leverage the RMB’s new-found status as an SDR currency, it told GlobalRMB.
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The International Islamic Financial Market has teamed up with the International Swaps and Derivatives Association to publish launch an Islamic cross currency swap standard.
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Emirates Global Aluminium launched syndication on Tuesday for a $4.9bn seven year loan facility, comprising both conventional and Islamic financing, to refinance existing loans.
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Another week, another couple of difficult Middle East deals for the CEEMEA market. Bahrain and International Bank of Qatar hit the sizes they wanted but found that pricing stuck stubbornly at initial price thoughts, with international investors beginning to close up shop for 2015.
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A 12 month roller coaster ride for US rates expectations has ended with the 10 year Treasury yield back where it started, and in the meantime the CEEMEA bond market has been turned on its head for completely unrelated reasons.
