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Yapi Kredi Bank has secured a $950m-equivalent loan, following Akbank, which heralded in the Turkish bank refi season last month. Glass manufacturing company Trakya Cam Sanayii also signed a €200m syndicated loan this month, signalling confidence in the Turkish market, despite what has been a bumpy year in the country's capital markets.
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Soha Housing has sold a £40m private placement in a bilateral transaction.
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Rusal has signed the first internationally syndicated sustainability-linked loan from Russia. The heavily oversubscribed facility is part of a slowly growing shift towards green financing in Russia, said bankers.
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Russia's VTB Bank has signed an agreement with African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to boost trade finance cooperation between the two in Africa. The announcement comes on the heels of the inaugural Russia-Africa summit held this week in Sochi, during which a number of trade deals were said to have been signed.
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Lenders have until Friday to respond to an amendment and extension of Tsinghua Unigroup’s two old borrowings from 2017. The banks were given just two weeks to respond.
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A UK government body providing cheap debt to local authorities increases its lending margins, so in step nimble institutional investors to capture a slice of a new asset class. It sounds poetically simple. The reality will be more prosaic.
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