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A jump in the cost of dollar funds at Taiwanese banks is causing concern in the syndications market even as the overall direction of loan pricing remains firmly downward. Bankers in Taipei said the situation could ease by the end of the first quarter but until then, they face the hard choice of settling for lower returns or seeing their loan books stagnate. Shruti Chaturvedi reports.
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Invitations are out for a $1.8bn Asian loan that will refinance a US term loan B for Novelis. The launch comes about a month after the firm mandated 10 lenders to arrange the borrowing.
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Rabobank’s capital markets operation in Hong Kong has undergone senior staff changes with the departure of a veteran loans banker and the appointment of a new capital markets head.
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The UK’s University Partnerships Programme (UPP) has signed a £105m financing arrangement to back University of London’s construction of new student accommodation in Stratford, East London.
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French technical and energy services company Spie is mulling its options for the acquisition financing of German peer SAG, but a company source dismissed talk of an imminent high yield offering.
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Europe’s corporate bond market has made exactly the start to 2017 that lead managers would have hoped for. RCI Banque, the French car finance bank, took the lead on the first business day, Tuesday, and although its deal was handsomely oversubscribed, it still left bankers unsure how strong investors’ appetites were.