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Emerging Market Loans

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  • Mid-tier Russian bank Transcapitalbank has mandated the IFC to arrange a new ‘A/B’ structured loan. The IFC has contacted commercial lenders to participate in the ‘B’ portion of the deal.
  • Nigeria’s Fidelity Bank is due to sign a $100m syndicated loan in the next two weeks. This will make Fidelity the first of a trio of Nigerian banks to borrow money since they began approaching the international loan market in late October.
  • Deutsche Bank and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp took Chandra Sakti Utama Leasing’s $80m three year loan into general syndication this week, and are already confident that it will generate more than enough demand to increase the deal.
  • Some lenders have backed away from Focus Media’s $1.525bn leveraged buyout loan after US regulators started investigating the company, but bankers working on the deal are still confident they will be able to overcome the bad press — and they made a good start this week, generating a $75m commitment in senior syndication, writes Rashmi Kumar.
  • The two banks leading Manipal Education’s $270m seven year loan have added one more bookrunner to the deal and have priced the loan at 600bp over dollar Libor, which bankers say is juicy enough to bring in plenty of demand.
  • Banks have received requests for proposals for Noble Group’s $1.5bn loan and expect the names of the arrangers to be announced by the end of February.