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Sinochem Hong Kong (Group) Company has raised Rmb1bn ($158m) from a dim sum bond, reviving the sector for corporate issuers from the Mainland. Although market sentiment was not ideal, the issuer still managed to achieve a ‘good saving’ compared to both its onshore funding level and the likely funding cost it would face with a dollar deal.

Qatar National Bank (QNB) has signed a $3.5bn loan with 21 international banks, with one of those also selling over $2.3bn of MTNs for the issuer, showing that banks’ jitters about supporting Qatari entities in the wake of the dispute between the sultanate and six other Arab states have partly been assuaged. Bianca Boorer and Virginia Furness report.

Qatar National Bank has signed a $3.5bn loan with 21 international banks, showing that banks' jitters about supporting Qatari entities in the wake of the dispute between the sultanate and six other Arab states have partly been assuaged.

US oil and gas company Kosmos Energy, which operates in Africa, has refinanced a reserve-based lending facility signed in 2015.

Qatar National Bank is expected to increase its loan to around $3.25bn, after it received commitments exceeding its launch amount.

Pricing details are out for a $100m facility for car rental service provider CSM Corporatama, better known as Indorent.

Car rental service provider CSM Corporatama, better known as Indorent, has reached out to lenders for a $100m syndicated loan, said bankers who received a preliminary email asking them to attend a roadshow.

Chinese investors welcomed the first Panda bond issuer from the Middle East with caution this week. The government of the Emirate of Sharjah sold a Rmb2bn ($317.2m) three year bond in the upper half of the coupon range.

First Abu Dhabi Bank will follow Dubai Islamic Bank to the sukuk market as GCC banks look to tap into the enormous pool of Islamic liquidity in the region.

Chinese regulators have given Standard Chartered the nod to become a joint lead underwriter on corporate Panda bonds, allowing it to take a senior position on deals that it was previously forced to play a junior role on. StanChart is only the second foreign bank to win the approval.

Dubai Islamic Bank took advantage of a quiet market to raise $1bn with a skinny new issue premium on Tuesday, opening the sukuk market for financial issuers from the Gulf.

Rabobank has priced a Rmb500m ($79m) offshore renminbi bond, taking advantage of a favourable CNH cross-currency swap rate. But despite the gradual pick-up in dim sum activity, the market is divided over whether the asset class will maintain its momentum.