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Russian banks will lend about 20% more in 2012 than last year, said Fitch Ratings on Monday, after their lending grew 30% in 2011. Meanwhile, international lenders continue to find Russian deals sparse.
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Apollo Credit Management printed ALM V, a $425 million collateralized loan obligation backed by senior secured bank loans and arranged by Citigroup, Thursday afternoon. -
Africa has been keeping emerging market loans desks busy as deal flow remains lethargic in the Middle East and eastern Europe.
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French building materials firm Lafarge is amending its €1.65bn revolving credit facility, extending the maturity by two years to 2015 and increasing the out-of-the-box margin to 200bp.
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Loans bankers in Asia ex-Japan have suffered their worst start to the year in seven years, after managing to close deals for just $10bn in January across domestic and offshore loan markets.
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The shine has come off the offshore renminbi market. Funding costs are rising, bond investors are posturing and some analysts now think that renminbi deposits in Hong Kong will fall this year, after an almost unbroken growth streak for the past two years. That is bad news for loans bankers.
