Latest emerging markets loans news

• PIF hints at regular capital markets use

  

  Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has got markets buzzing after announcing that its $11bn loan signed earlier this month is the first step of its capital markets funding programme.

  • 18 Sep 2018

• Afrexim makes debut Korean loan outing

  

  African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has for the first time turned exclusively to the Korean banking market to sign a $150m club loan.

  • 18 Sep 2018

• O-film Tech debuts with $100m amid US-China trade war

  

  China’s O-film Tech is tapping offshore lenders for the first time for a $100m term loan, hitting the market amid escalating tensions between the US and China.

  • 18 Sep 2018

• HSBC picks DCM stalwart to co-head securities services

  

  HSBC Securities Services has appointed two global co-heads — one of them a well-known figure in the debt capital markets.

  • 18 Sep 2018

• AfDB takes the lead as diverse parties push risk transfer

  

  The African Development Bank’s $1bn synthetic securitization is not its first risk transfer transaction, and will not be its last. The bank has marked itself out as a leader in this sphere, though the effort to get such techniques to work is also highly collaborative.

  • 18 Sep 2018

• Breakthrough for supranationals as African Development Bank debuts securitization

  

  The African Development Bank has become the first supranational bank to use a securitization sold to private investors to free up balance sheet capacity. The deal, four years in the making, demonstrates a new technique that could expand development banks’ firepower to promote development.

  • 18 Sep 2018

• EC’s new guarantee fund could be useful ally for markets

  

  The European Commission has unveiled a portfolio of financial guarantee transactions it is doing to support development in Africa and regions bordering the EU. Among them are two programmes conducted by the African Development Bank, including its new synthetic securitisation.

  • 18 Sep 2018

• Belinvestbank gives Belarus rare loan spotlight

  

  Belarus’ state-owned BeIinvestbank is in talks to raise a €50m syndicated loan, in a rare international deal for the country.

  • 17 Sep 2018

• Oilex gets Gulf support on loan

  

  Egypt’s Oilex has signed a E£2.4bn ($134m) loan from regional lenders, as the country continues to draw in international financing after a stamp of approval from the IMF.

  • 17 Sep 2018

• Indian government lays out plans to shore up rupee

  

  The Indian government has put in place new initiatives to attract capital and curb the country’s expanding deficit, including by easing fundraising through overseas bonds and loans, which market watchers say are small but important steps.

  • 17 Sep 2018

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