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Pan-African financial institution Ecobank has signed a $200m trade finance facility, which it will use to lend to African companies and small and medium sized enterprises. -
Signs of life emerged from the chrysalis that has covered the dormant Russian loan market this week when London-listed Russian steel firm Evraz launched the first new loan since the Ukraine crisis. But the threat of more sanctions and the reduced exposures of US and Japanese banks mean that Russian borrowers will have to borrow in radical new form compared with earlier in the year, according to senior loans bankers. Michael Turner reports.
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Three banks are understood to be providing underwritten debt financing to the tune of $600m-$650m to back KKR’s S$1.39bn ($1.1bn) buyout of Singaporean packaging company Goodpack, in a deal which will mark the private equity firm’s largest ever investment in southeast Asia. The move has led leveraged bankers to speculate that PE firms are now looking at opportunities outside of China to buy assets.
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Two months after Chinese hotel chain 7 Days Group Holdings made headlines for its return to the market for a $300m recapitalisation loan, the deal is finally taking shape with a soft launch into general syndication this week.
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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's London subsidiary has signed a $150m one year loan.
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Saudi Arabian energy and telecoms transmission manufacturer Al-Babtain has signed a SR200m ($53.3m) Shariah-compliant financing facility with Saudi Hollandi Bank.
