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In Europe loans are the key to opening ancillary business while in the Middle East relationships should cap premiums
Market stress so far confined to consumer credit and SMEs across region
Utilities metering company could refinance Schuldschein in coming months
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Damien Loynes has been appointed head of syndicate for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Crédit Agricole.
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Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup Joint Stock Co and its automobile subsidiary VinFast have exercised part of a greenshoe option on their joint borrowing, boosting the loan size to $525m. -
Etihad Airways has signed a €100m loan linked to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The deal is one of the latest ESG-linked financings signed in the Middle East, which is developing an appetite for sustainability-linked debt.
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Ericsson, the Swedish telecoms equipment group, has signed a $150m credit facility, which it will use to research and develop 5G technology.
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Banks have been warned that their tardiness in switching away from the Libor benchmark could leave them open to compensation claims, similar to those that followed the UK's £50bn scandal of banks mis-selling payment protection insurance. However, bankers involved in the process say they are working hard to complete the transition.
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VPBank Finance Company, the consumer finance arm of Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank, has increased the size of its loan to $200m after seven banks joined during general syndication
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